IDENTIFICATION OF A FISH HOST OF THE INFLATED HEELSPLITTER POTAMILUS-INFLATUS (BIVALVIA, UNIONIDAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS GLOCHIDIUM

Authors
ROE KJ SIMONS AM HARTFIELD P
Citation
Kj. Roe et al., IDENTIFICATION OF A FISH HOST OF THE INFLATED HEELSPLITTER POTAMILUS-INFLATUS (BIVALVIA, UNIONIDAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS GLOCHIDIUM, The American midland naturalist, 138(1), 1997, pp. 48-54
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology
Journal title
The American midland naturalist → ACNP
ISSN journal
00030031
Volume
138
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
48 - 54
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-0031(1997)138:1<48:IOAFHO>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
A survey of the fishes of the Black Warrior River was undertaken to de termine fish host(s) of the federally threatened inflated heelsplitter , Potanilus inflatus. Seven hundred-twenty individual fishes represent ing 30 species were examined; mussel glochidia were found on 10 indivi dual fishes representing nine species. Potamilus inflatus glochidia we re only found infesting one freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), w hich is concordant with previous findings for the genus Potamilus. The morphology of P. inflatus glochidia is described and compared to P. p urpuratus.