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:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
--
fred
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