Chapter 3 North Carolina Species
3.9.7 Additional Information In 2013, the AFS Endangered Species Committee on freshwater gastropods developed a list of snails in Canada and the United States found in freshwater habitats (Johnson et al. 2013) . The Committee’s assessment indicates that about 64% of freshwater snails are in some level of imperilment, including 53 species found in North Carolina, and another 10% are considered extinct. More information is available from the American Fisheries Society List of Freshwater Snails from Canada and the United States, available on the USGS website: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wetland-and-aquatic-research-center/science/american- fisheries-society-list-freshwater. Collections of land snails can be found at several museums around the country. Review of those collections will be critical to better verify species identifications and distributions for records pertaining to North Carolina. Collections are available at: • NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC. The Invertebrates Collection is worldwide in scope, with emphasis on localities in the Eastern United States. The core of the holdings are collections acquired from state agencies (e.g. NCWRC), the Institutes of Marine Sciences (IMS), a private collection from Herbert D. Athearn, in Tennessee, which contained over 23,000 lots of freshwater mollusks, and recently, a collection from Amy and Wayne Van Devender with over 11,000 specimens of land snails. A catalog for the Terrestrial and Aquatic Mollusks collection is available online.
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL. The collections of Hubricht are available on the web. https://www.fieldmuseum.org/department/invertebrates.
• Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA. The collections of Henry A. Pilsbry are housed here, which form the basis for the monograph of land snails of North America (see key references).Online https://ansp.org/research/systematics- evolution/malacology. • Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL. John Slapcinsky is conducting work on the family Zonitidae of western North Carolina; computerized collections. Online https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/iz/collection. • Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. Tim Pearce has a very large land snail collection that should be reviewed for North Carolina records. Online https://carnegiemnh.org/research/mollusks-malacology. The Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (http://molluskconservation.org) is dedicated to the conservation of and advocacy for freshwater mollusks, North America’s most imperiled taxon. The organization publishes Walkerana: The Journal of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society , newsletters, and reports.
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