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Pleurobema johannis I. Lea, 1859

Alabama pigtoe

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Now considered a synonym of P. perovatum (Williams et al. 2017).

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym)

IUCN RedList status: Synonym of P. perovatum

 

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 johannis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T17686A7319177. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T17686A7319177.en. Accessed on 20 June 2022.

Bogan, A. and Cummings, K. (2012). Pleurobema perovatum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 July 2013.

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.

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+johannis

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10356/pleurobema-johannis-alabama-pigtoe

 

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