Lampsilis cariosa

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Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 342 meters (1,123 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 26-Jul-2001

Synonyms = Unio cariosa Say, 1817; Unio crocatus Lea, 1841.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lampsilis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 45 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. abrupta (Pink Mucket) · L. altilis (Fine-Lined Pocketbook) · L. australis (Southern Sandshell) · L. binominata (Lined Pocketbook) · L. bracteata (Texas Fatmucket) · L. cardium (Plain Pocketbook) · L. cariosa (Yellow Lampmussel) · L. dolabraeformis (Altamaha Pocketbook) · L. fasciola (Wavyrayed Lampmussel) · L. fasciola fasciola (Wavy-Rayed Lampmussel) · L. fullerkati (Waccamaw Fatmucket) · L. haddletoni (Haddleton Lampmussel) · L. higginsii (Higgins' Eye Pearly Mussel) · L. hydiana (Louisiana Fatmucket) · L. orbiculata (Pink Mucket Pearly Mussel) · L. ornata (Southern Pocketbook) · L. ovata (Pocketbook) · L. perovalis (Orange-Nacre Mucket) · L. powellii (Arkansas Fatmucket) · L. radiata (Eastern Lampmussel) · L. radiata conspicua (Carolina Fatmucket) · L. radiata radiata (Eastern Lampmussel) · L. rafinesqueana (Neosho Mucket) · L. rafinesqueana rafinesqueana (Neosho Mucket) · L. reeveiana (Arkansas Broken-Ray) · L. reeveiana brevicula (Arkansas Broken-Ray) · L. reeveiana brittsi (Northern Brokenray) · L. reeveiana reeveiana (Arkansas Broken-Ray) · L. reeveiana reeviana (Arkansas Broken-Ray) · L. reeviana (Arkansas Brokenray) · L. reeviana brevicula (Ozark Brokenray) · L. reeviana brittsi (Northern Brokenray) · L. reeviana reeviana (Arkansas Brokenray) · L. satura (Sandbank Pocketbook) · L. siliquoidea (Fatmucket) · L. splendida (Rayed Pink Fatmucket) · L. straminea (Rough Fatmucket) · L. straminea claibornensis (Southern Fatmucket) · L. straminea straminea (Rough Fatmucket) · L. streckeri (Speckled Pocketbook) · L. subangulata (Shiny-Rayed Pocketbook) · L. teres (Yellow Sandshell) · L. teres anodontoides (Yellow Sandshell) · L. teres teres (Slough Sandshell) · L. virescens (Alabama Lamp Mussel)

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 147.
• A descriptive catalogue of the Naiades, or pearly fresh-water mussels. Detroit, Mich., Bryant Walker, 1914. url p. 44, p. 58.
• A monograph of the Najades of Pennsylvania / by Arnold E. Ortmann. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1911-1919] url , p. 282, p. 295, p. 296, p. 301, p. 302, p. 313, p. 318, p. 345.
• A synopsis of the classification of the fresh-water Mollusca of North America, north of Mexico, and a catalogue of the more recently described species, with notes, by Bryant Walker. .. Ann Arbor, Mich., The University, 1918. url p. 181.
• A synopsis of the family Naiades. By Isaac Lea. .. Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea, 1852. url p. 27.
• A synopsis of the family Unionidae / by Isaac Lea. Philadelphia: H.C. Lea, 1870. url p. 42.
• A synopsis of the family Unionidae. By Isaac Lea. .. Philadelphia, H. C. Lea, 1870. url p. 42.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 204, p. 209, p. 352, p. 528.
• Bibliography of North American conchology previous to the year 1860: prepared for the Smithsonian Institution / by W. G. Binney. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1863-1864. url p. 223.
• Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bloomington, Ill.: The Laboratory, 1876-1918. url p. 64.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 140 1970 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 276, p. 286, p. 299, p. 382, p. 383, p. 385, p. 387, p. 390, p. 396, p. 99.
• Crustacea. Miscellaneous. [1894-1913] url p. 313, p. 316, p. 317, p. 321, p. 325, p. 326, p. 363.
• Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. url p. 21.
• Fauna of New England: 13. List of the mollusca / by Charles W. Johnson. Boston: Boston Society of Natural History, 1915. url p. 21.
• Journal of the Portland Society of Natural History. Portland: The Society, 1864. url p. 54.
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 296, p. 302, p. 345.
• Miscellaneous publications / University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University, 1916- url p. 181.
• Monograph of the naiades of Pennsylvania. .. By Arnold. E. Ortmann. Pittsburgh, Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1911-19. url p. 282, p. 295, p. 301, p. 302, p. 313, p. 318, p. 345, p. 382.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 164.
• Occasional papers on mollusks. 1 1947 Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1945- url p. 145, p. 146, plate 19, page 147, p. 148, p. 150, plate 21 (map), page 155, figure 1, page 316, p. ix, index, page x.
• Papers on Unionidae [by] Ortmann. Pittsburgh, etc., 1908-26 url p. 204, p. 209, p. 352.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 246.
• Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. London, Dulau. url p. 131.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 529.
• Protozoology, by Richard R. Kudo. .. With three hundred and thirty-six illustrations. Springfield, Ill., C.C. Thomas, 1946. url p. 624, p. 753.
• Protozoology, by Richard Roksabro Kudo... with two hundred and ninety-one illustrations. Springfield, Ill., Thomas[c1939] url p. 561, p. 665.
• Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts / published agreeably to an order of the Legislature. Boston: Wright and Potter, state printers, 1870. url p. 172.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 5 1864 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 223.
• Special occasional publication / Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. 2 1974 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1973- url p. 28.
• Synopsis of the Naiades: or pearly fresh-water mussels / by Charles Torrey Simpson. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1900. url p. 529.
• Technical publication / New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. Syracuse, N.Y.: The College, 1914- url p. 239.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 70, p. 89.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 21.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 52 1938 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 113, p. 329, p. 467, p. 740, p. 750, p. 94.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , p. 105, p. 129, p. 28, p. 30, p. 30, p. 50, p. 51, p. 52, p. 52, p. 52, p. 52, p. 55, p. 59, p. 86, p. 91, p. 92, p. 92.
• Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url p. 153, p. 50, p. 51, p. 55.

Notes

Contributors

• Bogan, A.E. 1996. Lampsilis cariosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Mollusc Collection - Unionoida
• New Brunswick Museum, NBM Unionoids

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2692537
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-79991
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13781824
• IUCN ID: 218048
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 705380

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 823.650 based on 138 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Bogan, A.E. 1996. Lampsilis cariosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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