Pleurobema murrayense

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	MOLLUSCA	BIVALVIA	UNIONOIDA	UNIONIDAE

Scientific Name:	Pleurobema murrayense
Species Authority:	(I. Lea, 1868)
Common Name/s: English – Coosa Pigtoe

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct     ver 2.3
Year Published:	2000
Assessor/s:	Bogan, A.E. (Mollusc Specialist Group)
Reviewer/s:	Seddon, M.B. (Mollusc Red List Authority)
Justification: Listed in 1996 as Critically Endangered (Baillie and Groombridge 1996) due to lack of survey information. Recent surveys show this species to be Extinct. Dr. D. Campbell pers. comm. (2005) indicates that this species may still be extant.
History:	1996 – Critically Endangered

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Regionally extinct: United States
Range Map:	Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:

Freshwater

Bibliography [top]

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.