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Title: Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ended ..
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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donta imbecillw was found for the first time in considerablenumbers at this place, both in the deeper and shallower parts of thecanal. The conditions of the canal also gave an excellent oppor-tunity to get very young shells of some of the smaller species, suchas Plagiola elegans and P. donacifoi^Tms. In connection with the last station on the river may be consideredshells obtained on the beach of Put-in Bay Island in Lake Erie.These represent species of the lake into which the Maumee flows andfrom which that stream may have received some members of itsmussel fauna. No live mussels could be obtained at Put-in Bayexcept a few occasionally washed up by waves. About a mile belowthe bathing beach a number of dead shells were obtained, represent-ing the species given in the table. In this list the words common and few refer only to therelative number of shells found. Considered as a whole, shells atPut-in Bay were rather rare, and all seen were much dwarfed. MUSSEL FAUNA OF MAUMEE RIVEE. 37
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38 MUSSEL FAUNA OF MAUMEE RIVER. sa o o o o o ® o ,00 &d8 II a ass O OeaL „ _S---3 33 >>3J,w B a 2 ^ ^i2.Sx3 SaiscsSscacaSS ^g§f-Sfe«:S£35^ag lllltltlttltl —•oEEgsssaa MUSSEL FAUNA OF MAUMEE RIVER. 39 DISCUSSION OF MUSSEL SPECIES. 1. Quadnda tuhercidata (Rafinesque). Purple warty-back. Thisis not a very common species of mussel in the Maumee or its tribu-taries, only a few occasional examples having been taken. It wasmost abundant in the upper portions of the river, near Fort Wayne,and down as far as Maumee Center Bridge. No living exampleswere obtained below Defiance, Ohio, and only a very few dead shellswere picked up below here, the last one being obtained at Waterville,Ohio. All specimens seen were kept, and only about 52 were obtainedin the Maumee system altogether. The rang

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