Rediscovery of the Inflated Heelsplitter Mussel,Potamilus inflatus, from the Pearl River Drainage

ABSTRACT The inflated heelsplitter mussel, Potamilus inflatus (Lea, 1881) an endemic freshwater mussel of the eastern Gulf coast drainage, was rediscovered in the West Pearl River, Louisiana. The collection of two recently dead specimens at different localities represents the first since 1911.