Biology:Gonidea angulata

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Gonidea angulata

Vulnerable (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Gonidea
Species:
G. angulata
Binomial name
Gonidea angulata
Lea, 1839[2]

Gonidea angulata (Rocky Mountain ridged mussel) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Description

Shell is 125 mm long, 65 mm high, 40 mm wide.[3]

Distribution and conservation status

This species is found in Canada and in the western United States .

In Canada, it lives in British Columbia, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern in Canada in 2003, and as endangered in 2010.[4][5]

References

  1. "Gonidea angulata". NatureServe. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Gonidea+angulata+. Retrieved 2016-07-08. 
  2. Lea, I. 1838. Description of new freshwater and land shells. American Philosophical Society, Transactions 6: 1-111.
  3. COSEWIC 2003. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Rocky mountain ridged mussel Gonidea angulata in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 29 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm) http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_rocky_mount_ridged_mussel_e.pdf
  4. COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.
  5. COSEWIC. 2011. [1]. COSEWIC, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

Wikidata ☰ Q3012753 entry