Endangered Higgins Eye Pearlymussels

February 28, 2015

From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region:

The country's most at-risk group of animals is not birds or mammals, but freshwater mussels. There are 88 threatened or endangered mussels in the United States, 23 of them in the Midwest. Learn more:http://go.usa.gov/ZuEQ

Photo: Endangered Higgins eye pearlymussels by Gary Wege/USFWS.