Hi David,
I have tried the link that you provided a couple of times but it doesn't
work.
It comes back as "the page cannot be found" . Any suggestions?
Matt
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From: "David Campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Oregon FW guide


> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> Does anyone know of an identification guide to the freshwater
>> mollusks of Oregon?
>>
>> Harry
>>
>
> Ethan Nedeau, Allan K. Smith, and Jen Stone. Freshater Mussels of the
> Pacific Northwest. Available online at
> www.fws.gov/pacific/columbiariver/musselwg.htm
>
> Probably no North American mussel really belongs in Anodonta, and
> there's some debate about whether and how to split Margaritifera.
>
> Of course, Burch's guides cover all of North America.  However,
> there's been a lot of work on the hydrobiids and other snails lately,
> some unpublished or gray literature (try searching online for papers
> by Frest and Johannes), some formally published but not yet in more
> accessible format (Frest and Johannes are authors on a lot of those,
> too, but probably searching for Hershler on the hydrobiids is most
> effective).  Despite focusing sampling on described forms in Oregon,
> we came up with at least three undescribed species of Juga from Oregon
> in our hopefully soon to be published work.  As a rule, probably the
> most important piece of information in identifying a freshwater
> mollusk is "Where did you find it?"  (This makes a type locality of
> California not real helpful.)
>
> There are also older papers such as Junius Henderson and G. D. Hanna's
> work.
>
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
>
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