Clair and Etowah counties. The Canoe Creek clubshell (Pleurobema athearni) is a freshwater mussel that lives only in Big Canoe Creek and Little Canoe Creek West, tributaries of the Coosa River in ...

NEW ORLEANS— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Alabama hickorynut in the Mobile Basin as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The agency also proposed to protect ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designation of critical habitat for four species of endangered freshwater mussels ... now found in 22 waterways in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa ...

Freshwater mussels, also known as clams, are unique animals. Mussels have two hard, external shells and soft tissue inside. They also have only one foot! The movement of mussels is limited. Most ...

Indeed, pearls from freshwater mussels lie at the center of the liveliest activity in pearling today. Natural freshwater pearls occur in mussels for the same reason that saltwater pearls occur in ...

A new study published in the journal Animal Ecology revealed that the current population of mussels is just 5% of what it was six decades ago. Mussels, the wedge or pear-shaped creatures are known ...

WELCOME TO HEARTOFTHETIPPY! The information presented on this webpage is intended to help protect endangered mussels that live in the Tippecanoe River. The Tippecanoe River is home to one of the most ...

Be prepared to get wet and dirty! Mike Davis has worked for the MN DNR since 1987 and specializes in freshwater mussel ecology, in particular on the Mississippi River. As part of the mussel ...