Using morphometrics to identify glochidia from a diverse freshwater mussel community

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 880-889

  Kennedy, Thomas B ^a   Haag, Wendell R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BOTTOMLAND HARDWOODS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function; Drift; Fish host relationship; Freshwater mussels; Glochidia; Unionidae

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY;

ALABAMA; NORTH AMERICA; SIPSEY RIVER; UNITED STATES;

PLEUROBEMA DECISUM; UNIONIDAE;

EID: 28844504634     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/05-001.1     Document Type: Article

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