Fresh-water mussels and mussel industries of the United States.

Coker, R. E.

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“…In the early 20th century, the shells of several species of Quadrula were harvested by the commercial shell industry of the Mississippi River basin (Lefevre and Curtis, 1910;Coker, 1919;Coker et al, 1921), and drastic reductions in their abundance prompted preliminary studies on reproduction and host fish identification (Surber, 1913;Howard, 1913Howard, , 1914Coker et al, 1921). On the basis of these early studies, the glochidia of Quadrula species were identified as gill parasites, and several species of sunfishes (Centrarchidae) and catfishes (Ictaluridae) were implicated as hosts for Q metanevra, Q nodulata, Q pustulosa and Q quadrula (Fuller, 1974).…”

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Reproductive Cycle and Fish Hosts of the Rabbit's Foot Mussel, Quadrula cylindrica strigillata (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Upper Tennessee River Drainage

Yeager¹,

Neves²

1986

American Midland Naturalist

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Reproductive Cycle and Fish Hosts of the Rabbit's Foot Mussel, Quadrula cylindrica strigillata (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Upper Tennessee River Drainage

Yeager¹,

Neves²

1986

American Midland Naturalist

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“…Their importance to Native Americans is revealed by the large shell mounds associated with villages located along streams with abundant mussel populations (Parmalee and Klippel 1974). Until the advent of plastics, mussels represented an important commercial fishery in which shells were used in the manufacture of buttons (Coker 1919). Today, the commercial value of freshwater mussels revolves around the use of shell for James Williams chairs the Freshwater Mussels Subcommittee of the American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee.…”

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1993

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“…In the upper Mississippi River (UMR), Fusconaia ebena was historically a dominant species, representing as much as 75% of pre-historic shell middens (Theler 1987) and 80% of the late 19th and early 20th century mussel beds (Coker 1919, Baker 1928. However, populations were decimated in the UMR by unregulated harvest (Coker 1930) and pollution (Fuller 1980a).…”

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Relic Populations of the Ebony Shell,Fusconaia ebena(Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Upper Mississippi River Drainage

Kelner¹,

Sietman²

2000

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

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The ebony shell (Fusconaia ebena) is extirpated from much of the upper Mississippi River drainage. Nonetheless, in the past 25 years 94 live individuals were collected at 23 sites in the upper Mississippi River between Lock and Dam 6 and 26, three sites in the lower St. Croix River, and one site in the lower Wisconsin River. Most of the recent records were from the lower St. Croix River and the lower reaches of the upper f i s i s s i p p i River. These data support the hypothesis that Lock and Dam 19 inhibits F. ebena from recolonizing the Mississippi River above the dam by preventing its migratory host fish, skipjack herring (Alosa chrysochloris), from moving upstream. Populations above Lock and Dam 19 are probably pre-lock and dam remnants that have persisted for over a half century and are at risk of extirpation. Conservation efforts should focus on artificial propagation and dam modifications that allow the passage of migratory fishes.

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Fresh-water mussels and mussel industries of the United States.

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Reproductive Cycle and Fish Hosts of the Rabbit's Foot Mussel, Quadrula cylindrica strigillata (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Upper Tennessee River Drainage

Reproductive Cycle and Fish Hosts of the Rabbit's Foot Mussel, Quadrula cylindrica strigillata (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Upper Tennessee River Drainage

Full Issue Article Volume 18, Issue 9

Relic Populations of the Ebony Shell,Fusconaia ebena(Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the Upper Mississippi River Drainage

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