Pleurobema avellanum Simpson, 1900

Hazel pigtoe

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Now considered a synonym of Pleurobema rubellum (Williams et al. 2017).

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Alabama, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Bogan, A. E. (Mollusc Specialist Group). (2000). Pleurobema avellanum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 July 2013.

Bogan, A.E. (Mollusc Specialist Group). 2000. Pleurobema avellanum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T17673A7292223. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T17673A7292223.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2021). A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species. Journal of Molluscan Studies 87(1): eyaa034.

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.

Williams, James D., Bogan, Arthur E., Butler, Robert S., Cummings, Kevin S., Garner, Jeffrey T., Harris, John L., Johnson, Nathan A. and Watters, G. Thomas. (2017). A revised list of the freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) of the United States and Canada. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation 20: 33-58.

http://explorer.natureserve.org/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Pleurobema+avellanum

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10352/pleurobema-avellanum-hazel-pigtoe

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