Rotundaria tuberculata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Genus: | Rotundaria |
Species: | R. tuberculata
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Binomial name | |
Rotundaria tuberculata (
Rafinesque, 1820)
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Synonyms | |
Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820) |
Rotundaria tuberculata, commonly called the purple wartyback, is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk.
This species is native to eastern North America, generally in the Mississippi River drainage, where it is wide-ranging. It is still common in many areas, particularly in the southern part of its range, [2] but is being negatively impacted by water pollution and channelization. In the Mississippi River drainage, it is threatened by overgrowth of invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) [1] and, in Canada, by predation on juvenile mussels and possibly unsuccessful development of larval glochidia on the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus). [2] [3]
It was formerly classified as the sole species in the genus Cyclonaias, but in 2012 it was moved to Rotundaria based on genetic evidence. [4]
Rotundaria tuberculata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Unionidae |
Genus: | Rotundaria |
Species: | R. tuberculata
|
Binomial name | |
Rotundaria tuberculata (
Rafinesque, 1820)
| |
Synonyms | |
Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820) |
Rotundaria tuberculata, commonly called the purple wartyback, is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk.
This species is native to eastern North America, generally in the Mississippi River drainage, where it is wide-ranging. It is still common in many areas, particularly in the southern part of its range, [2] but is being negatively impacted by water pollution and channelization. In the Mississippi River drainage, it is threatened by overgrowth of invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) [1] and, in Canada, by predation on juvenile mussels and possibly unsuccessful development of larval glochidia on the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus). [2] [3]
It was formerly classified as the sole species in the genus Cyclonaias, but in 2012 it was moved to Rotundaria based on genetic evidence. [4]