Endangered
Oval pigtoe
Pleurobema pyriforme
Oval pigtoe is a bivalve in the family Unionidae (order Unionida) — Pleurobema pyriforme, recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
The oval pigtoe is a federally endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is endemic to the United States in the states of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The oval pigtoe was originally described from the Chattahoochee River near Columbus, Georgia.
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
Even so, the populations in all river systems have declined significantly due to land use changes, development, and the construction of dams.
Oval pigtoe is 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 Oval pigtoe, Wikidata item Q3015244. 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.
