Critically Endangered
Lampsilis virescens
Lampsilis virescens
Lampsilis virescens is a bivalve in the family Unionidae (order Unionida), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
This mussel grows up to 6 centimeters long and is straw-colored or greenish and smooth and shiny.
Range and habitat
Lampsilis virescens, the Alabama lamp naiad, Alabama lamp pearly mussel or Alabama lampmussel, is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to the United States. This river mussel is currently limited to the Paint Rock River drainage in northeastern Alabama.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Freshwater mussels bury in the bed and live for decades if the river still runs and the host fish still spawn.
In crisis
It is an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Lampsilis virescens is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Lampsilis virescens, Wikidata item Q3013701. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
