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Federal Designations:

  • FE = Federal Endangered
  • FT = Federal Threatened
  • BGEPA = Federal Bald & Golden Eagle Protection Act
  • FTDSA = Federal Threatened Due to Similarity of Appearance
  • extinct = recently declared extinct
  • FSC = Federal Species of Concern

Some species are state listed but not federally listed:

  • SE = State Endangered
  • ST = State Threatened
  • SSC = State Special Concern

 

 

State Listed Mollusks

There are so many state-listed mollusks that we haven’t had time to sort through them to check ranges.  Many, possibly most, of the species below may not occur in the Linville River drainage.

Endangered

Appalachian elktoe (Alasmidonta raveneliana) FE
Atlantic pigtoe (Fusconaia masoni)
Barrel floater (Anodonta couperiana)
Brook floater (Alasmidonta varicosa)
Carolina creekshell (Villosa vaughaniana)
Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona decorata) FE
Dwarf wedge mussel (Alasmidonta heterodon) FE
Fragile glyph (Glyphyalinia clingmani)
Green floater (Lasmigona subviridis)
Greenfield rams-horn (Helisoma eucosmium)
James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina) FE
Knotty elimia (Elimia christyi)
Little-wing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula) FE
Magnificent rams-horn (Planorbella magnifica)
Neuse spike (Elliptio judithae)
Purple wartyback (Cyclonaias tuberculata)
Savannah lilliput (Toxolasma pullus)
Slippershell mussel (Alasmidonta viridis)
Tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri) FE
Tar River spinymussel (Elliptio steinstansana) FE
Tennessee clubshell (Pleurobema oviforme)
Tennessee heelsplitter (Lasmigona holstonia)
Tennessee pigtoe (Fusconaia barnesiana)
Yellow lampmussel (Lampsilis cariosa)
Yellow lance (Elliptio lanceolata)

Threatened

Alewife floater (Anodonta implicata)
Big-tooth covert (Fumonelix jonesiana)
Cape Fear threetooth (Triodopsis soelneri)
Carolina fatmucket (Lampsilis radiata conspicua)
Clingman covert (Fumonelix wheatleyi clingmanicus)
Eastern lampmussel (Lampsilis radiata radiata)
Eastern pondmussel (Ligumia nasuta)
Engraved covert (Fumonelix orestes)
Mountain creekshell (Villosa vanuxemensis)
Noonday globe (Patera clarki nantahala) FT
Roan supercoil (Paravitrea varidens)
Roanoke slabshell (Elliptio roanokensis)
Sculpted supercoil (Paravitrea ternaria)
Seep mudalia (Leptoxis dilatata)
Smoky Mountain covert (Inflectarius ferrissi)
Squawfoot (Strophitus undulatus)
Tidewater mucket (Leptodea ochracea)
Triangle floater (Alasmidonta undulata)
Waccamaw ambersnail (Catinella waccamawensis)
Waccamaw fatmucket (Lampsilis fullerkati)
Waccamaw spike (Elliptio waccamawensis)

Special Concern

Appalachian gloss (Zonitoides patuloides)
Bidentate dome (Ventridens coelaxis)
Black mantleslug (Pallifera hemphilli)
Blackwater ancylid (Ferrissia hendersoni)
Blue-foot lancetooth (Haplotrema kendeighi)
Cape Fear spike (Elliptio marsupiobesa)
Dark glyph (Glyphyalinia junaluskana)
Dwarf proud globe (Patera clarki clarki)
Dwarf threetooth (Triodopsis fulciden)
Fringed coil (Helicodiscus fimbriatus)
Glossy supercoil (Paravitrea placentula)
Great Smoky slitmouth (Stenotrema depilatum)
High mountain supercoil (Paravitrea andrewsae)
Honey glyph (Glyphyalinia vanattai)
Lamellate supercoil (Paravitrea lamellidens)
Mirey Ridge supercoil (Paravitrea clappi)
Notched rainbow (Villosa constricta)
Open supercoil (Paravitrea umbilicaris)
Pink glyph (Glyphyalinia pentadelphia)
Pod lance (Elliptio folliculata)
Queen crater (Appalachina chilhoweensis)
Rainbow (Villosa iris)
Ramp Cove supercoil (Paravitrea lacteodens)
Saw-tooth disc (Discus bryanti)
Spike (Elliptio dilatata)
Spiral coil (Helicodiscus bonamicus)
Velvet covert (Inflectarius subpalliatus)
Waccamaw amnicola (Amnicola sp.)
Waccamaw lampmussel (Lampsilis crocata)
Waccamaw siltsnail (Cincinnatia sp.)
Wavy-rayed lampmussel (Lampsilis fasciola)

 

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