I got these in a stream in southwestern NH.
ID's needed, clam and crayfish
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Guest_FirstChAoS_*
, Apr 27 2010 12:10 PM
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#1 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 27 April 2010 - 12:10 PM
#2 Guest_ashtonmj_*
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.
Edited by ashtonmj, 27 April 2010 - 02:49 PM.
#3 Guest_fundulus_*
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).
#4 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
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.
#5 Guest_ashtonmj_*
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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