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Freshwater Mussels of the Mississippi River
Freshwater Mussels populate Mississippi River pools, adding biological diversity and complexity to the system's food web.
USFWS Freshwater Mussels of the Upper Mississippi
A Survey of Freshwater Mussel Aggregations on the Lower Chippewa River, Wisconsin, April 2004
By
David Heath, Ronald Benjamin, Kenneth Von Ruden and Mark Endris
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
La Crosse, Wisconsin
A Survey of Freshwater Mussel Aggregations on the Lower Black River, Wisconsin, March 2004
By David Heath, Ronald Benjamin, Kenneth Von Ruden and Jeffery Janvrin
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
La Crosse, Wisconsin
By David Heath
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
Mississippi River Pool 5 Incidental Take Permit Issued, 2005
Some of these mussels are now endangered due to various human and human-induced ecological processes occurring in the system, including changes which have occurred from dams, including water depth, velocity of currents, and water temperature.
Endangered Mussels
Freshwater mussels listed as state threatened or endangered include:
- Rock Pocketbook - Threatened
- Spectacle Case - Endangered
- Purple wartyback - Endangered
- Butterfly - Endangered
- Higgins Eye Pearly Mussel - Federal and state endangered
- Yellow and slough Sandshells - Endangered
- Monkeyface - Threatened
- Wartyback - Threatened
- Buckhorn - Threatened
- Winged Mapleleaf - Federal and state endangered
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