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Flat Pigtoe

Educational resources on Flat Pigtoe

Flat Pigtoe or Pleurobema marshalli is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A1ce+2ce. IUCN Profile of the Flat Pigtoe

Academic web links for the Flat Pigtoe.


Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest - Pleurobema sintoxia
Pleurobema sintoxia, INHS 12110. Sangamon River, Champaign County, Illinois. Length: 3.1 inches (7.9 cm). Other common names Solid pigtoe, pink pigtoe, flat pigtoe, bullnose.
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/musselmanual/page58_9.html

ADW: Pleurobema marshalli: Classification
Pleurobema marshalli (flat pigtoe) ...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Pleurobema_marshalli.html

Untitled Document [ichthyology.usm.edu]
Information submitted on the eastern indigo snake, Red Hills salamander, bayou darter, southern combshell, black clubshell, flat pigtoe, heavy pigtoe, stirrupshell, Kral's water
ichthyology.usm.edu/sfc/sfcstatus.php

ADW: Pleurobema: Classification
... Pleurobema marshalli (flat pigtoe)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Pleurobema.html

Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest - Index
Flat pigtoe 58 Floater 78 Fluted-shell 94 Fluter 40 Fragile heelsplitter 122 Fragile papershell 120 Fusconaia ebena 42 Fusconaia flava 46 Fusconaia subrotunda 44
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/musselmanual/index.html

Pleurobema sintoxia Rafinesque
Other common names include false pig-toe, solid pigtoe, flat pigtoe, and bullnose Total range: The global range of the round pigtoe is restricted to eastern North America, from Ontario
web4.msue.msu.edu/mnfi/abstracts/zoology/Pleurobema_sintoxia.pdf

Forestry & Wildlife Sciences Extension
Flat Pigtoe Mussel* (Pleurobema marshallii) Greene, Sumter: Heavy Pigto e Mussel* (Pleurobema taitianum) Baldwin, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Monroe, Sumter, Pickens, Wilcox
www.aces.edu/forestry/wildlife/invertebrates.php

ADW: Pleurobema: Classification
... Pleurobema marshalli (flat pigtoe)
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/path/Pleurobema.html

TAXONOMY
The species may be referred to as the Flat pigtoe (04), southern round pigtoe mussel, or southern round pigtoe. Frierson's collection (type material) was purchased by
fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e404023.htm

Overall summary:
...flat pigtoe Pleurobema marshalli. inflated heelsplitter Potamilus inflatus. heavy pigtoe Pleurobema taitaianum. southern combshell Epioblasma penita
www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/BC/PAGESL1/EnvFacts/EnvFactPagesL2/EnvFactsWATER/EnvFacts...







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