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Artificial infestation of largemouth bass and walleye with glochidia of Lampsilis ventricosa (Pelecypoda: Unionidae)

Freshwater Invertebrate Biology
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https://doi.org/10.2307/1467107

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The unionid mussel Lampsilis ventricosa is a bundant in the upper Mississippi River and provides a model for studies related to recovery of the endangered Higgins' eye mussel (Lampsilis higginsi). We tested the suitability of two species of fish species as hosts for glochidia of L. ventricosa. Laboratory-reared largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and walleyes (Stizostedion vitreum) were artificially infested with the glochidia of L. ventricosa and held separately in two flowthrough tanks for 21 days. Tank bottoms were siphoned daily, and the materials collected were examined for detached glochidia and metamorphosed juveniles. Juveniles were found in both tanks from day 13 post-exposure through day 20, indicating that largemouth bass and walleyes are suitable hosts for the glochidia of L. ventricosa.

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Waller, D.L., Holland Bartels, L.E., Mitchell, L.G., Kammer, T.W., 1985, Artificial infestation of largemouth bass and walleye with glochidia of Lampsilis ventricosa (Pelecypoda: Unionidae): Freshwater Invertebrate Biology, v. 4, no. 3, p. 152-153, https://doi.org/10.2307/1467107.

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Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Artificial infestation of largemouth bass and walleye with glochidia of Lampsilis ventricosa (Pelecypoda: Unionidae)
Series title Freshwater Invertebrate Biology
DOI 10.2307/1467107
Volume 4
Issue 3
Year Published 1985
Language English
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Contributing office(s) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Description 2 p.
First page 152
Last page 153
Country United States
Other Geospatial Upper Mississippi River
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