Alabama Mollusks

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Alabama Sites

• Alabama State Shell -- Johnstone's Junonia (Scaphella junonia johnstoneae Clench, 1953)

• Freshwater Mussels in Alabama
  Includes a short section on Morphology, Life History and Freshwater Mussel Identification for commercial species. This site is listed on the Alabama Game & Fish Fisheries Section index.

• U. S. Army Corps of Engineers - Mobile District Water Management Section
  The purpose of this website is to provide water resources information for dams and gages on the rivers and streams in the Mobile District. See also, the Mobile District Weather and River Stage Forecasts site.

• Alabama Natural Heritage Program
  Their mollusks inventory list is available at ftp://ftp.heritage.tnc.org/pub/nhp/us/al/mollusks.html

• Forever Wild Program of Alabama

• The Nature Conservancy
  There was a listing for Alabama, but it wasn't working the last time I looked, so I've listed the organization's main page.

• Alabama Information Sources
  This site has links for Business, Education, Government, Weather, Recreation, etc.

• North Alabama Shell Club

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Online Mollusk References

• Unio Gallery by Chris Barnhart.
  This site includes pictures and video of unionids (freshwater mussels).

• Field guide to freshwater mussels of the Midwest by Cummings, K.S., and C.A. Mayer.
  Illinois Natural History Survey Manual 5. 194 pp. (1992) Table of Contents.
  This is a very good source and it includes pictures of the different species. Many of these species can also be found in Alabama.

• Fieldguide to the Freshwater Snails of Florida by Fred G. Thompson.
  This site is a hypertext version of the out-of-print 1984 book: The Freshwater Snails of Florida, A Manual for Identification. It includes both text and figures. Some of these snails are also found in Alabama.

• Zebra Mussel Information Resources
  Includes distribution maps.

• Systematic Research Collections (Recent & Fossil Mollusca)
  List of world-wide research collections (of mollusks) compiled by Kevin Cummings (Illinois Natural History Survey), Anton Oleinik (Purdue University), and John H. Slapcinsky (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago).

• Conchologists of America
  This site has information on marine, freshwater, and terrestrial mollusks.

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Electronic Discussion Lists:

• Conch-L
  The "Conchologists of America has established the Conch-List, CONCH-L, the first Listserv expressly for shell collectors." "Conch-L will provide a forum for conchologists, indeed, for anyone with an interest in mollusks, to discuss any topic related to conchology."

• Mollusca Listserv
  The Mollusca listserv is probably the best source for online academic discussions on mollusks. This site has information on the discussion group, subscription instructions, and an archive of posted messages.

• UNIO Listserv
  "UNIO will focus on the biology, ecology and evolution of freshwater unionid mussels. The list is sponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore County and administered and managed by Rick Tankersley (tankersl@umbc.edu). There are no limitations on who may subscribe to the list and the subscription is FREE."

• Shellfish Listserv
  This listserv is sponsored by the National Shellfisheries Association and is a forum for discussion on shellfish research, the shellfish industry, funding and employment opportunities, meetings/conferences, etc.

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Endangered Species

• Alabama Natural Heritage Program Mollusks Inventory List (FTP site)

• US Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
  Includes text of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and lists of endangered and candidate species.

• Endangered Species
  A compendium of information that is available about Endangered Species on the Internet. The original source for much of this is the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Images of endangered mussels.

• COA and Conservation
  This part of the COA Conch-Net deals with conservation issues. It includes a Resolution for Responsible Scientific Collecting and A Code of Ethics for Collectors of Live Shells.

• 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals

• Environmental Education on the Internet

• The Nature Conservancy
  The Nature Conservancy has been successful in conserving natural resources in the U.S. and world-wide, using scientific principles and local people.

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Miscellaneous

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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Compiled by Deborah Wills (dwills@HiWAAY.net)
This page has been accessed times since March 4, 1996.
Last Revised: 24 March 2000