>Date:    Wed, 8 Dec 1999 03:07:08 -0500
>From:    Diana Pederson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: help!
>
>Hi:
>
>I received a copy of the Conchologist journal a couple of days ago.
>I picked up several shell books at the local university library (go
>MSU).

Go Illinois!

>I've been doing a bit of research but haven't located any information
>about shellfish in Michigan.  Other than the zebra mussel, do we have
>any?  Are they endangered or protected?

Diana,

Here is a little book I helped put together a few years ago.  Unfortunately
the title and maps are somewhat misleading.  Although we included Michigan
on the base map the ranges of the species were not plotted (no one working
on Mich unionid atlas at the time I'm afraid).  However, it should work
pretty well for your area.

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/musselmanual/cover.html

Now that winter is almost here I hope to update a few of the other pages I
have in complete disarray.

Rogue's Gallery:
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/FamousMalacologists.html

Thanks for the new pics Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli !

and the Genera of Mussels page:
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/MusselGenera.html

Kevin

Comments appreciated but summarily dismissed (just kidding).





Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
Champaign, IL
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn Pro."  Hunter S. Thompson