- Range:
Blue = current range
Hollow circles = former range
- Status in Kansas:
Extirpated
- North American Status:
(From NatureServe)
This is a wide ranging
species that is stable in most areas except at the edges of its range. It is found in the
Canadian Interior basin, upper Mississippi, Ohio and St. Lawrence River systems extending
from Saskatchewan to Nebraska and eastward to Vermont and Quebec and south as far as West
Virginia; and the Hudson River system of New York.
- Comments:
The creek heelsplitter has been found as an old relic shell in the Nemaha River
basin so there is evidence it once occurred in Kansas. This species is closely related to
the white heelsplitter and the flutedshell, but differs from these two by having lateral
teeth that interlock. The general shape closely resembles the fluted shell without the
flutes showing on the posterior end. It remains extant in the upper Midwest and east to
Ohio where it inhabits creeks and headwaters of small rivers. However, this species is
listed as threatened in Iowa and Illinois.
- Fish Hosts:
black crappie
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