Gonidea angulata

Taxobox
name = "Gonidea angulata"


status = NE [IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Downloaded on 28 September 2008.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Gonidea"
species = "G. angulata"
binomial = "Gonidea angulata"
binomial_authority = Lea, 1839 [Lea, I. 1838. Description of new freshwater and land shells. American Philosophical Society, Transactions 6: 1-111.]
synonyms =

"Gonidea angulata", Rocky Mountain Ridged mussel, is a species of bivalve in the Unionidae family.

Description

Shell is 125 mm long, 65 mm high, 40 mm wide. [COSEWIC 2003. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Rocky mountain ridged mussel "Gonidea angulata" in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 29 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm) http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_rocky_mount_ridged_mussel_e.pdf]

Distribution and conservation status

It is found in Canada and in the United States.

It lives in British Columbia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern in Canada. [COSEWIC. 2005. [http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/species/clwsa%5F0505%5Fe%2Epdf Canadian Species at Risk] . Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.]

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