Hi, Harry.
The complete range of the species is coastal plains species from Nova Scotia to eastern Quebec and south to Virginia with disjunct populations in the Pee Dee and Chowan basins in North Carolina. As far as I know, it does not occur in Newfoundland although does occur relatively commonly in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Although the alewife is the primary host fish, other documented host fish include white sucker (Catostomus commersoni), threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus), and white perch (Morone americana) (Davenport and Warmuth, 1965; Wiles, 1975).
Jay
Jay Cordeiro
c/o Biology Dept.
UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
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From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harry G. Lee
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Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] New York City naiades
Once again an incremental extension (S; now N) of the range cited by Dick Johnson toward congruence with that of the Alewife. Does the Conch-L delegation from Newfoundland care to respond to this Roll Call vote?
Thanks, Fred,
Harry
On 1/2/2012 9:36 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
> 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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>> *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:
>>> 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
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