Medionidus penicillatus

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	MOLLUSCA	BIVALVIA	UNIONOIDA	UNIONIDAE

Scientific Name:

Species Authority:

(I. Lea, 1857)

Common Name/s:

English

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Gulf Moccasinshell

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered A1ce+2ce ver 2.3

Year Published:

2000

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Bogan, A.E. (Mollusc Specialist Group)

Reviewer/s:

Seddon, M.B. (Mollusc Red List Authority)

Contributor/s:

History:

1996

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Critically Endangered

Countries:	Native: United States (Alabama, Florida, Georgia)
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Habitat and Ecology:	This species inhabits large creeks to medium sized rivers in sand and gravel substrates and with slow to moderate currents.
Systems:	Freshwater

	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.

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.

Citation:	Bogan, A.E. (Mollusc Specialist Group) 2000. Medionidus penicillatus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 May 2013.
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