Purple Wartyback

Rotundaria tuberculata, commonly called the purple wartyback, is a freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk.

This species is native to eastern North America, generally in the Mississippi River drainage, where it is wide-ranging. It is still common in many areas, particularly in the southern part of its range, but is being negatively impacted by water pollution and channelization. In the Mississippi River drainage, it is threatened by overgrowth of invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and, in Canada, by predation on juvenile mussels and possibly unsuccessful development of larval glochidia on the invasive round goby (Neogobius melanostomus).