- Range:
Blue = current range
Hollow circles = former range
A map showing counties with designated critical habitat for this species may be found
the the Kansas Wildlife Refuge
- Status in Kansas:
THREATENED
- North American Status:
(From NatureServe)
This wide-ranging species
has become extirpated from at least one state and may be declining in others, however,
there is little data to show that it has markedly declined throughout its wide range as
other populations (Tennessee, Minnesota) have shown some expansion. It is distributed from
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota, south through Iowa, and Kansas to the Gulf states,
east to Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana; and recently in Oklahoma. It is
apparently extirpated from Ohio. It occurs from the Interior Basin (Mississippi and Ohio
River Drainages) south and west to the Colorado River, Texas.
- Comments:
The rock pocketbook has a dark, greenish-brown to black shell. It largely resembles
the more common threeridge but has a thinner shell. There are also two rows of protruding
knobs located on the umbos of the rock pocketbook which help anchor it in the substrate.
This mussel inhabits slow-moving rivers with muddy substrates. It is a rare Kansas mussel
found only in the Marais des Cygnes River and Pottawatomie Creek.
- Fish Hosts:
freshwater drum, white crappie, gizzard shad, channel catfish and American eel
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