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A comprehensive accounting of the richest mussel fauna in the US

Synthesizes the ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history en

In the early nineteenth century, a naturalist named Rafinesque stood on the banks of the Ohio River and began to describe the freshwater mussels he found there.

Abbie Gascho Landis brings readers to a hotbed of mussel diversity, the American Southeast, to seek mussels where they eat, procreate, and, too often, perish. A