Thanks Tom , any idea where i can find these , i know I'm asking alot, mark
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From: G. Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: a request for information,
 
 
>>Could anyone out there please help me to locate identification material
for
>>unionidae and other fresh water bivalves. my collection has grown to a
point
>>that i need to plug ll the shells into my database and proper id should be
>>my first objective. my request is for ANY material. thanks mark bethke
>>
>>
>
>ID books tend to be regional. Here's a few of the more recent ones on North
>America. Several larger works on Tennessee, Alabama, and Ohio are due in
the
>near future.
>
>Burch. 1973, 1975. Freshwater unionacean clams of North America.
>Malacological Publ.
>
>Couch. 1997. Unionid mussels of Kansas. Privately printed.
>
>Cummings & Mayer. 1992. Field guide to freshwater mussels of the Midwest.
IL
>Natural History Survey Manual 5.
>
>Fichtel & Smith. 1995. The freshwater mussels of Vermont. VT Fish &
Wildlife
>Dept. Tech. Rep. 18.
>
>Harris & Gordon. 1990. Arkansas mussels. AR Fish & Game Comm.
>
>Howells, Neck & Murray. 1996. Freshwater mussels of Texas. TX Parks and
>Wildlife Dept.
>
>Martins. 1997. Freshwater mussels of Maine. Northeastern Naturalist 4(1).
>
>Oesch. 1984. Missouri naiads. MO Dept. Conservation.
>
>Watters. 1995. Guide to the freshwater mussels of Ohio. OH Division of
Wildlife.
>
>
>
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