Alabama Wildlife: Imperiled aquatic mollusks and fishes

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Ralph Edward Mirarchi
University of Alabama Press, 2004 - Nature - 255 pages
Field guide to imperiled aquatic mollusks and fishes

Alabama has an exceptionally diverse array of aquatic animal species. A unique combination of climatic and hydrologic conditions--mild average temperature, abundant rainfall, and 77,000 miles of perennial and intermittent streams that flow over a complex geologic terrain--has provided ideal and diverse environments for aquatic communities. There are more species of freshwater mussels and snails in Alabama than in any other state, and Alabama boasts one of the richest fish faunas in North America. Unfortunately, many species are now extinct, extirpated, or gravely imperiled due to dam construction, unnatural water flows, stream channelization, sedimentation, stream-bed instability, and water pollution.

This volume focuses on those imperiled species of mollusks and fishes, presenting their common and scientific names, a detailed morphological description, full-color identification photographs and distribution maps, habitats, life history and ecological information, and the basis for their high level of conservation concern. It is, in one volume, a "report card" on the health of endangered populations of aquatic species and a field guide to their identification.

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LIST OF FIGURES ix
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FRESHWATER MUSSELS AND SNAILS
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Alabama Lydeard anal fin aquatic BASIS FOR STATUS Bivalvia body whorl Box and Williams Brim Box brown Cahaba River caudal fin Coosa River County dark DARTER Etheostoma data on distribution declining population trend DESCRIPTION disk and posterior distribution Williams dorsal fin ELIMIA Elimia Elk River Endemic Etnier and Starnes females Fish and Wildlife freshwater mussels glochidia gravel gravid Haag habitat hinge line HISTORY AND ECOLOGY hosts impoundment Insufficient data Interdentum Kuhajda lateral teeth Limited distribution Listed as endangered long-term brooder males Mayden Mettee Mississippi Mobile Basin moderately Modified from Simpson mussels nacre occurs Paint Rock River Parmalee and Bogan Percina Periostracum Photo-From Parmalee PIGTOE Pleurobema posterior margin Posterior ridge posterior slope Pseudocardinal teeth River system sand Shell disk Shell nacre white Shoal snail spawning species specimens spring STATUS CLASSIFICATION streams substrata Tennessee River throughout its distribution Tombigbee River tributaries U.S. Fish umbo Unionidae ventral margin vulnerable to extinction Wildlife Service

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TitleAlabama Wildlife: Imperiled aquatic mollusks and fishes
Volume 2 of Alabama Wildlife, Auburn University. School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, ISBN 0817399062, 9780817399061
EditorRalph Edward Mirarchi
ContributorsAlabama. Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries, Auburn University. School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
Edition2, illustrated
PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedFeb 26, 2010
ISBN0817351310, 9780817351311
Length255 pages
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