>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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