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TABS Species Account TN00502

TN00502 ELKTOE MUSSEL ALASMIDONTA MARGINATA

Tennessee Animal Biogeographic System TABS

version 12/2002


Taxonomy
Status
Distribution
Habitat Associations
Food Habits
Environmental Associations
Life History
Management Practices
References

References

2097* Dennis, D.S. 1979. Freshwater and terrestrial molluscs. 
Proc. symp. endangered and threatened plants and animals of 
Virginia. Ext. Div., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
Univ., Blacksburg:123-132.

2100* Fuller, S.L.H. 1974. Clams and mussels (Mollusca: 
Bivalvia). Pollution ecology of freshwater invertebrates. 
Academic Press, New York:215-273.

2101* Coker, R.E., al., et. 1921. Natural history and 
propagation of freshwater mussels. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 
37.:77-181.

3897* Stansbery, D.H. 1972. The mollusk fauna of the North Fork 
Holston River at Saltville, Virginia. Bull. Amer. Malaco. 
Union.:45-56.

3917* Arey, L. 1932. A microscopical study of glochidial 
immunity. J. Morph. 53.:367-379.

3918* Arey, L. 1932. The formation and structure of the 
glochidial cyst. Biol. Bull. 62.:212-221.

3919* Churchill, E., Jr., Lewis, S. 1924. Food and feeding in 
freshwater mussels. Bull. Bur. Fish. 39.:439-471.

3922* Ellis, M., et al. 1931. The blood of North American 
freshwater mussels under normal and adverse conditions. Bull. 
Bur. Fish. 1097.:507-542.

3924* Lefevre, G., Curtis. 1912. Studies on the reproduction and 
artificial propagation of freshwater mussels. Bull. Bur. Fish. 
30d.:105-201.

3926* Ortmann, A. 1909. Destruction of the freshwater fauna in 
western Pennsylvania. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 48.:90-110.

3927* Ortmann, A. 1919. Monograph of the naiades of 
Pennsylvania.Part 3. Systematic account of genera and species. 
Mem. Carn. Mus. 8..

3928* Putnam, D.. Verbal communications, molluscs, Oct. 1978. 
U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., State College, Pennsylvania.

3929* Stansbery, D.H. 1979. Verbal communication, Dec. 1979. 
Ohio State University Museum of Zoology, Columbus, Ohio.

3931* Allen, W. 1921. Studies of the biology of freshwater 
mussels. Biol. Bull. 40.:210-241.

3932* Arey, L. 1932. The nutrition of glochidia during 
metamorphosis. J. Morph. 53.:201-221.

3968* Allen, W. 1914. The food and feeding habits of freshwater 
mussels. Biol. Bull. 27(3).:127-147.

3969* Baker, F. 1928. The freshwater molluscs of Wisconsin. Part 
2. Pelecypoda. Wisc. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. (70)..

3972* Parmalee, P. 1967. The freshwater mussels of Illinois. 
Ill. St. Mus. Pop. Sci. Ser. 8.:1-108.

8830* American fisheries society. 1988. List of Common and 
Scientific Name of Unionid Mussels (in press) . American 
Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

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