Boy that sure looks like it. Now the quandary...
My tinkering with the environment has attracted an
unnaturally high concentration of fish in a given area.
That many fish need a lot to eat so I want lots of natural fish
food but if this is an invasive species, it doesn't belong
there? Should I kill it? I take great care to not kill the
snails and crayfish in order to breed fish yummies but .......
Thank you for the leads......it's hard to weed through
the tons of googlefodder to find what I need, especially
when I'm starting with such a lack of terminology.
>There are other sites on the web with good information about native
>mussels. Some of these are run by the Illinois Natural History Survey,
>Univ. of Tennessee and Virginia Tech (please, no hokies applause). A
>search in Google on Unionid clams (or Unionidae) will take you to many of
>these sites. Mussel ID is more of an art than a science, I'll warn you.
>Very different species can be very similar in external appearance. I had
>to confront that this summer on a survey project in the Elk River in AL,
>looking for two endangered species. I was convinced I had found the
>Endangered _Quadrula intermedia_, and instead it was the common
>_Cyclonaias tubercula_ which can most easily be distinguished by looking
>at the color of the inside of the shell. The best book I found was
>"Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee", published by the Univ. of Tenn. Press
>(I'm blanking on the two authors!!). They're a fascinating group of
>animals once you learn to look for them and to understand their preferences.
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>Huntsville, AL, US of A
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