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  • The rivers of Illinois were once rife with the orange-foot pimpleback and the cracking pearlymussel; spike and Wabash riffleshell; tubercled blossom and Higgins eye; winged mapleleaf and round hickorynut; pondhorn, pink papershell, pyramid pigtoe, paper pondshell, and purple lilliput.

    Zach Klein Universal Feed 2010

  • Nature Conservancy land protection manager Steve Lindeman says acquiring the property represents a 20-year effort to join with local partners to protect critical habitat for the tan riffleshell.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2009

  • Town Manager Jim McGlothlin says it's home to the only reproducing population of tan riffleshell mussel in Virginia.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2009

  • Town Manager Jim McGlothlin says it's home to the only reproducing population of tan riffleshell mussel in Virginia.

    WHSV - HomePage - Headlines 2009

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