Endangered
Round ebonyshell
Reginaia rotulata
Round ebonyshell is a bivalve in the family Unionidae (order Unionida) — Reginaia rotulata, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The round ebonyshell is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk.
Range and habitat
This species is native to the United States, where it is endemic to a small stretch of the Conecuh and Escambia rivers in Alabama and Florida. It has one of the most restricted ranges of any North American freshwater mussel. It is threatened by habitat loss and pollution.
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
In 2012 it was added to the endangered species list of the U.S. The population count is unknown as of now.
Round ebonyshell 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 Round ebonyshell, Wikidata item Q106019253. 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.
