- Range:
Blue = current range
Hollow circles = former range
- Status in Kansas:
Common in southeast Kansas
- North American Status:
(From NatureServe)
This is a widespread and common species in North America with stable
populations throughout its range with the exception of perhaps the northeastern
occurrences from New York to West Virginia. The range of this species includes the entire
Mississippi River drainage, from New York and Pennsylvania west to the Dakotas, and south
to eastern Texas and Louisiana and Alabama.
- Comments:
The pimpleback usually has pustules on its shell but sometimes it can be found
without this characteristic and the shell is smooth. The overall appearance is circular
with the exception of a squared-off posterior margin. It is a common mussel where found
and is typically in the top three mussel species in abundance at river sample sites in
southeast Kansas.
- Fish Hosts:
shovelnose sturgeon, black bullhead, channel catfish, flathead catfish, bullhead
and white crappie
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