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12-22-2016

Lampsilis abrupta

Lampsilis abrupta NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.

ITIS Reports — ITIS (the Integrated Taxonomic Information System) is a source for authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.Lampsilis abrupta, the pink mucket or pink mucket pearly mussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to the United States.

FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video. The pink mucket reproduces in a similar manner to most other freshwater mussels. It requires a stable and undisturbed habitat.  The male releases sperm into the current, and the female siphons it into its gill chamber, where the eggs are then fertilized.  Once the eggs have gone through this process, they mature into larvae called (glochidia) and are discharged into the water.The glochidium lodges in the gills of a host fish, such as black bass and walleye. After the larval mussel spends a few days to weeks attached to the host it becomes a juvenile mussel and drops to the substrate. The pink mucket spawns from August to September, and releases their glochidia the following year from May to June.

Detailed information
Full Name: Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta)
Where found: Wherever found
Critical Habitat:N/A
Species Group:Clams
Current listing status
Status Date Listed Lead Region Where Listed
Endangered 06/14/1976 Southeast Region (Region 4) Wherever found
  • States/US Territories in which the Pink mucket, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: Alabama , Arkansas , Illinois , Kentucky , Louisiana , Missouri , Ohio , Tennessee , Virginia , West Virginia
  • US Counties in which the Pink mucket, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: View All
  • USFWS Refuges in which the Pink mucket, Wherever found is known to occur: Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge ... Show All Refuges
Federal register documents
Recovery
No critical habitat rules have been published for the Pink mucket.
Date
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Plan Action Status
Plan Status
01/24/1985 Pink Mucket Pearly Mussel View Implementation Progress Final
Date
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Plan Action Status
Plan Status
01/24/1985 Pink Mucket Pearly Mussel View Implementation Progress Final
Date
Citation Page
Title
Document Type
07/29/2008 73 FR 43947 43948 5-Year Status Review of 20 Southeastern Species
  • Notice 5-year Review, Initiation
CCA Plan Summaries
Chucky madtom (Weems)
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