# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status for Suwannee Moccasinshell
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-10-06 · Effective 2016-11-07 · 81 FR 69417
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-24138
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 69417
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2016-10-06
- **Effective date:** 2016-11-07
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R4-ES-2015-0142
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended, for the Suwannee moccasinshell (Medionidus walkeri), a freshwater mussel species from the Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia. The effect of this regulation will be to add this species to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/10/06/2016-24138/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-threatened-species-status-for-suwannee-moccasinshell)
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