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Sagittunio
''Sagittunio'' is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae. Species There are four recognized species: * '' Sagittunio aldermani'' Watters, 2018 * ''Sagittunio nasutus ''Sagittunio nasutus'', the eastern pondmussel, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...'' (Say, 1817) * '' Sagittunio subrostratus'' (Say, 1831) * '' Sagittunio vaughanianus'' (Lea I., 1838) References Bivalve genera {{Unionidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagittunio Nasutus
''Sagittunio nasutus'', the eastern pondmussel, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Sagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1056434 on 2021-05-08 This species is native to the eastern United States and Ontario, Canada. In Canada, the eastern pondmussel has been adversely affected by zebra mussels, which were introduced near the end of the 1980s. Originally assessed as endangered due to the existence of only two known Canadian populations, the eastern pondmussel was placed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act in 2013. However, a reassessment by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada in 2017 identified seventeen additional subpopulations, and the eastern pondmussel was relisted as "special concern" in August 2019. The population of the lower Great Lakes has limited diversity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagittunio Subrostratus
''Sagittunio subrostratus'', commonly referred to as the pondmussel or black pondmussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve in the family Unionidae The Unionidae are a Family (biology), family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionida, the bivalve molluscs sometimes known as river mussels, or simply as unionids. The range of distribution for this family is world-wide. It is a ..., the river mussels. References External links Lea I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23–119, pls 1–19Conrad, T. A. (1849). Descriptions of new fresh water and marine shells. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. (2) 1(4): 275–280, plates 37–39 Lea, I. (1859). Descriptions of seven new species of uniones from South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |