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Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel

Educational resources on Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel

Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel or Lampsilis higginsii is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1ce+2ce. IUCN Profile of the Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel

Academic web links for the Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel.


Endangered Species
The Higgins eye pearly mussel, found in the St. Croix and Upper Mississippi River, is on the list of endangered species at the moment. It has become endangered largely due to poor
www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/threerivers/studentprojects/ENVI_133_Spr_08...

TAXONOMY
Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel Recovery Plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 69 pp. 05 Wisconsin Dept. Nat. Resour. 1980. Petition to the Director, U.S
fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/esis/lists/e403001.htm

Mussels in the Mississippi - fyi - November 5, 2007 - The University ...
Restoring Mississippi River's Mussel Mass . The Higgins eye pearly mussel, once plentiful along the muddy bottom of the Mississippi River, was nearly wiped out in the late 19th and
www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues/issues2007_v44/11052007/photos/photofeature110507/index.htm

Inland Navigation System Planning: The Upper Mississippi River ...
These are the pallid sturgeon, Higgins' eye pearly mussel, winged maple leaf mussel, Indiana bat, bald eagle, decurrent false aster, and least tern.
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10072&page=95

Slide 1
Higgins eye pearly mussel. Topeka shiner. Piping plover . Four threatened species in MN Western prairie fringed orchid. Prairie bush clover. Leedy’s roseroot
www.extension.umn.edu/capacity/afe/components/Publications/PestSafety/2008_REVISED...

Silence of the Calms
It must be really difficult to be a Higgins' eye pearly-mussel. After surviving the unregulated harvest of freshwater mussels for the mother-of-pearl button and pin industry
www.lib.niu.edu/2002/oi020316.html

Iowa Habitat Loss and Disappearing Wildlife
Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) Iowa Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki) Higgins' eye pearly mussel
www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/IAN101.pdf

Community Ecology
Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel (Lampsifis higginsii) Legal Status in U.S.: Endangered; Legal Status in WI: Endangered; Range in WI: Lower St. Croix River, Lower Wisconsin
www.uwlax.edu/biology/faculty/Galbraith/BIO105/Student%20Notes/Student%203-competition%20...

Untitled Document [www.bsu.edu]
Salamander (New York) C = Atlantic Sturgeon (Delaware) D = Great Prairie-Chicken (Missouri) E = Woody lily (Maryland) F = Florida Toreya (Georgia) G = Higgins' eye pearly mussel
www.bsu.edu/web/jktata/edtec550/DOCUMENTS/WEBQUEST.html

Triannual Unionid Report No. 10, September 1996
...representing the subfamily Ambleminae (Pimpleback, Quadrula pustulosa and Spike, Elliptio dilatata) and one representing the subfamily Lampsilinae (Higgins' Eye Pearly mussel) were
ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu/FMCS/TUR/TUR10.html







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