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Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:10 PM

I got these in a stream in southwestern NH.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 02:39 PM

I hope you immediately put the mussel back into the substrate if it was alive. It looks like an eastern elliptio.

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Posted 27 April 2010 - 03:55 PM

Yeah, my first informed thought was eastern elliptio after I got over thinking it was a dwarf wedge (which is federally Endangered).

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 12:57 AM

I hope you immediately put the mussel back into the substrate if it was alive. It looks like an eastern elliptio.


I put it back in the water (it was on the surface, not buried in the substrate). I am surprised it is a mussel, I always assumed mussels anchor themselves to rocks and other hard surfaces.

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Posted 28 April 2010 - 05:31 AM

Many marine bivalves do (blue mussels), but many also don't (scallops). Native mussels occassionally attach to substrate with a thread as juvenilles, but otherwise they are burried in the substrate with their foot anchoring themselves.




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