- Source: Pleurobema marshalli
Pleurobema marshalli, the flat pigtoe or Marshall's mussel, was a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. It was native to Alabama and Mississippi, but it has not been seen since 1980. Though it is still listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List and as an endangered species on the US Endangered Species List, it is likely extinct.
This mussel was last seen in a stretch of the Tombigbee River before the habitat was destroyed by the installation of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. No living or freshly dead specimens have been seen since.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service press release in September 2021 formally proposed the species be delisted from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction, it was officially delisted on October 16, 2023.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pleurobema marshalli
- Pleurobema
- Pleurobema taitianum
- List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
- IUCN Red List critically endangered species (Animalia)
- List of critically endangered invertebrates
- List of critically endangered molluscs
- IUCN Red List near threatened species (Animalia)
- IUCN Red List vulnerable species (Animalia)
- List of near threatened molluscs
