On 1/2/2012 8:59 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Actually this species extends to at least South Carolina.

* and to the lowermost Ottawa River in Quebec. It used to get to Ottawa,
extremely rarely, before all the hydro dams.

fred.
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> -----Original message-----
>
>     *From: *"Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>*
>     To: *[log in to unmask]*
>     Sent: *Mon, Jan 2, 2012 11:42:58 GMT+00:00*
>     Subject: * Re: [CONCH-L] New York City naiades
>
>     Dear Allen,
>
>     A great chronicle of urban shelling.
>
>     The host fish may not have been in the pond! The Alewife, /Alosa
>     pseudoharengus/ (Wilson, 1811), sometimes (mis)identified as the
>     confamilial menhaden, shad, bunker, mossbunker, "shiner," or
>     pogey**, is an anadromous (as in most salmon) herring relative which
>     historically lived along the coast from Newfoundland to about
>     Jacksonville, FL.
>
>     The distribution of f /Anodonta implicata/ (Say, 1829), now
>     officially known as the Alewife Floater, ranges from New England.
>     Including some original observations in the Agawam River, Plymouth,
>     MA, Johnson (1970: 361) reported its reproductive cycle to be
>     annual, with discharge of glochidia in the warmer part of
>     springtime. Appropriately enough, this is when the Alewife ascend
>     the coastal portions of rivers in its range to breed, returning to
>     the sea in the of autumn (see
>     <http://www.maine.gov/dmr/searunfish/alewife/index.htm>). While
>     there are some land-locked alewife populations, they do not seem to
>     play a role in the life history of this naiad, which prospers in
>     ponds and relatively swift streams, both with "an unobstructed
>     outlet to the sea" (Johnson, loc. cit.).
>
>     When Wolf Pond was created, the dam may have stifled the annual
>     spring migration of its dedicated alewife population. That would
>     account for the large specimens you found (and the apparent absence
>     of a significant number of smaller recruits).
>
>     Harry
>
>     Johnson, R.I., 1970. The systematica and zoogeography of the
>     Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the southern Atlantic slope
>     region./ Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 14/0(6):
>     263-449 (incl. 22 pls.) 20 Nov.
>
>
>     On 1/1/2012 2:18 PM, Allen Aigen wrote:
>>     Freshwater clam lovers,
>>     I found a lot of /Anodonta implicata S/ay, 1829 still stuck in the
>>     muddy sand near what was the shoreline of Wolf's Pond in Staten
>>     Island. It lost it's dam during the last big storm and reverted
>>     back to a small creek. I was very surprised to see them as I never
>>     saw a shell there when it was a pond, and these grew up to an
>>     impressive 150 mm. According to
>>     http://cbc.amnh.org/mussel/introductiononeframeset.html they are
>>     not rare or protected, and apparently this is the first reference
>>     to them on Staten Island. Now that the pond is drying up, this may
>>     be the last of them in Staten Island... Apparently they use
>>     pumpkinseed sunfish as hosts for breeding because that was about
>>     the only fish in the pond.
>>     Allen Aigen
>>     [log in to unmask]
>>     Staten Island, NY
>>
>>     .
>>     --- On *Sat, 12/31/11, Harry G. Lee /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>         From: Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]>
>>         Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] New monograph on Florida naiades
>>         To: [log in to unmask]
>>         Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011, 7:07 AM
>>
>>         Excellent; this is like peer-review - if I may be so
>>         presumptuous as to
>>         presume parity.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Harry
>>
>>
>>         On 12/30/2011 5:48 PM, David Campbell wrote:
>>         >> For sake of completeness, one species, a Toxolasma, was
>>         included in
>>         >> the inventory.
>>         >>
>>         > For the sake of completeness, insert the word "undescribed"
>>         before
>>         > Toxolasma. The species in question is discussed in the
>>         Williams et
>>         > al. 2008 Alabama mussel book. Molecular data do support its
>>         > distinctiveness, as well as a number of other Toxolasma
>>         populations.
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > --
>>         > Dr. David Campbell
>>         > Collections Assistant
>>         > The Paleontological Research Institution
>>         > 1259 Trumansburg Road
>>         Ithaca NY 14850
>>


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