Table 6 



Kinds of Mussels Taken Alive from the Illinois River in the Vicinity 

 of Meredosia in 1912, 1930, 1955, and 1966? 



Kind of Mussel 



F. ebena (Ebony Shell) 



F. _f . f. undata (Pig-Toe) 



M. gigantea (Washboard) 



A. plicata (Three-Ridge) 



C;. quadrula (Maple-Leaf) 



Q. pustulosa (Pimple-Back) 



£. nodulata (Warty-Back) 



_£. metanevra (Monkey-Face) 



JT. verrucosa (Buckhorn) 



_C. tuberculata (Purple Warty-Back) 



P_. cyphyus (Bullhead) 



P_. coccineum f. solida 



E. crassidens (Elephant's Ear) 



E. dilatatus (Lady-Finger) 



A. confragosus (Rock Pocketbook) 



L. complanata (White Heel-Splitter) 



A. grandis complex (Floater) 



A. imbecillis (Paper Pond Shell) 



0_. reflexa (Three-Horned Warty-Back) 



A. ligamentina (Mucket) 



P. lineolata (Butterfly) 



T. truncata (Deer-Toe) 



T_. donaciformis (Fawn's Foot) 



L. fragilis (Fragile Paper Shell) 



P. alata (Pink Heel-Splitter) 



P. laevissima (Fragile Heel-Splitter) 



£. parva (Liliput Shell) 



L. recta (Black Sand-Shell) 



L. a., f. anodontoides (Yellow Sand-Shell) 



L. a., f. fallaciosa (Slough Sand-Shell) 



L. _r. luteola (Fat Mucket) 



L_. ventricosa (Pocketbook) 



L. _o. f. higginsii (Higgin's Eye) 



Total 



31 



19 



16 



14 



aTable taken from Starrett, 1971: 357. 



^Collections by Danglade (1914: 37) at the old LaGrange lock and dam and 



at Meredosia. 



Collections made 2 miles above Meredosia in 1955 by Dr. Paul W. Parmalee 



(personal communication, 4 January 1968) . 



^1966 survey in the vicinity of Meredosia (river miles 70.8-79.8) (Starrett, 1971). 



ep = present, blank = absent. 



f Collections made in the early 1930 's in the vicinity of Meredosia by Dr. 



J.P.E. Morrison (personal communication, 4 January 1968). 



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