>From: Alan Gettleman <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Unknown freshwater unionids >Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:00:41 -0500 > >Martin, >I also have the first shell and can't locate it right now, but will continue to look. >The second can only be Cyrogenia aberti.  Irrorata never crosses to the west of the Mississippi and similarly aberti is never east of the Mississippi River.  Ref: Ron Oesch's Missouri Naiades, p. 145 quoting Dr. David Stansbery.  C. aberti does exist in the St. Francois in the areas not dammed; and the muskrats do love them.  I have seen them this past fall there, mainly in muskrat middens.  They are also in the Black River in Arkansas, where they can get very large.  Their other location is the Spring River drainage in s.w. Missouri to Kansas to Oklahoma.  I was on the Spring River in September but did not see any there in Missouri sites I visited. >The third resembles Anodontites trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819) which is widespread in S. America and Simpson :1914 lists it also from Peru; however I certainly not consider that definitive, and readily defer to the folks like Kevin Cummings on naiades from that continent. >Happy holidays to you. > >Alan Gettleman >Merritt Island, Florida >(where the rivers are too high and the weather too cold to look for naiades). > >   ----- Original Message ----- >   From: [log in to unmask] >   To: [log in to unmask] >   Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:20 PM >   Subject: Unknown freshwater unionids > > >   To all; > >   I have posted some new questionables to the following URL: > >   http://www.geocities.com/eocene1/Unknowns.html > >   There is a probable oriental Parreysia (???) species from a tourist shell shop, and an unusual Cyprogenia from the American mid-continent.  Anyone is welcome to look and give an opinion. > >   Thank you in advance, > >   Martin Kohl