Fat Pocketbook (Potamilus capax) ... These chemicals and toxic metals become concentrated in the body tissues of such filter-feeding mussels as the fat pocketbook pearly mussel, eventually poisoning it to death. ... photo of fat pocketbook mussel...
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Fat pocketbook - Potamilus capax Threatened and Endangered Mussels ... Source: Cummings, K.S. and C.A. Mayer. 1992. Field guide to freshwater mussels of the Midwest. Manual 5. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL. 194 pp.
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Fat pocketbook pearly mussel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fat pocketbook pearly mussel or fat pocketbook , scientific name Potamilus capax , is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussel...
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However, one species, the endangered fat pocketbook mussel, Potamilus capax Green 1832, is very common in deep deposits of fine-grained sediments in man-made ditches or in slow moving rivers, streams, sloughs, and bayous in the St. Francis Watershed in Arkansas.
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Web site of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ... Fact sheet; Species Profile; Final Rule: Determination of Endangered Status for the Northern Riffleshell Mussel (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) and the Clubshell Mussel (Pleurobema clava) - January 22, 199 ... Fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax)
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Potamilus capax (Green, 1832) ... Similar species Plain pocketbook, pocketbook. ... Other common names Pocketbook, grandmaw.
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A Recovery Plan for the Fat Pocketbook Pearly Mussel, Potamilus (=Proptera) capax (Green, 1832). U.S. Fish Wildlife Service, Atlanta, GA. 57 pp. ...
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The fat pocketbook lives in the St. Francis River drainage in areas ranging from small ditches to the main channel at the river's lower end. Its range includes portions of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, ... The greatest impact on this mussel's habitat has been from activities related to navigation and flood control.
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Today the fat pocketbook mussel is found only in the lower Wabash and Ohio rivers, and the lower Cumberland river. Much of the mussels habitat is altered or destroyed by impoundments and dredging for irrigation, navigation, and flood control.
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Threatened & Endangered Species Potamilus capax (Fat Pocketbook Mussel) ... Miller, A.C., and Payne, B.S. 2004. Status of the Fat Pocketbook Mussel, Potamilus capax. Submitted to Southeastern Naturalist.
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