MUCKET

Photo by Bob Gress
used by permission

Federal Status:
None

State Status:
Endangered

• Range:
  Dark Blue = Counties with designated critical habitat
  Light Blue = Historical records
• Comments: This smooth, nondescript-looking shell is one of the rarest in Kansas occurring only in the lower Marais des Cygnes River. The heavy specimens appear to be old and well-worn. The shells are typically yellowish-brown with wide, greenish rays. There are many fish hosts for the mucket. These include the largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, bluegill, green sunfish, orange-spotted sunfish, white bass, black crappie, white crappie, sauger and tadpole madtom. The female mucket usually releases her larval mussels (glochidia) in June.

Other Gastropods on the Kansas T&E List