Round pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia) COSEWIC status report
Official title: Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema Sintoxia)
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- Lists of Figures and Tables
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status
- Summary of Status Report
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Literature Cited
- Biographical Summary of the Report Writers, Authorities Contacted, and Collections Examined
COSEWIC
Assessment and Status Report
on the
Round Pigtoe
Pleurobema sintoxia
in Canada
Endangered
2004
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2004. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the round pigtoe Pleurobema sintoxia in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 33 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
COSEWIC acknowledges David T. Zanatta and Janice L. Metcalfe-Smith for writing the status report on the round pigtoe Pleurobema sintoxia in Canada. The report was overseen and edited by Gerry Mackie, COSEWIC Molluscs Species Specialist Subcommittee Co-chair.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le pleurobème écarlate (Pleurobema sintoxia) au Canada.
Cover illustration:
Round pigtoe -- line drawing of the external features of the shell (reproduced with permission from Burch 1975). Photograph of live specimens collected from the Sydenham River near Dawn Mills (photographer J.L. Metcalfe-Smith).
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2004
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/398-2004E-PDF
ISBN: 0-662-37369-3
HTML: CW69-14/398-2004E-HTML
0-662-37370-7
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