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"Kevin S. Cummings" <[log in to unmask]>
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I'll have to agree with Tom, although it sure looks more like
Potamilus purpuratus, but that species isn't known from Lake Michigan.



>Date:    Fri, 9 May 2008 10:42:25 +0000
>From:    John Cramer <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Lake Mghigan elliptio ?
>
>A colleague has given me a freshwater shell he collected dead on the Michigan
>shore of Lake Michigan in 1962 in shallow water.  He can't recall
>where. It's on
>my web site, http://www.oglethorpe.edu/faculty/%7Ej%5Fcramer/ ; click on
>"shells."  It's a rather heavy shell with large, strong cardinal
>teeth.  I think
>it's an elliptio complanata but the shape doesn't fit the pictures I have of
>that species very well.  It does not have a posterior ridge, more like several
>week ones.  Is the ID just obvious to anyone?
>

>
>
>Date:    Fri, 9 May 2008 12:45:21 -0400
>From:    G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Lake Mghigan elliptio ?
>
>
>This is Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817) (a little worse for wear),
>known as the Pink Heelsplitter.




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