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c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
> Hi dave,
>
> Are you sure they are not one of the Pea Clams (Pisidium spp.)? There
> are a variety of species here in Nova Scotia:
>
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the suggestion. My resources, and consequently my
knowledge, with respect to land and freshwater Mollusca are zero. So it
may well be a Pea Clam of some kind.
Yt, DW
>
> Pisidium conventus - Arctic-Alpine Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium variable - Triangular Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium nitidum - Shiny Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium milium - Quadrangular Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium lilljeborgi - Lilleborg's Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium ferrugineum - Rusty Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium compressum - Ridge-Beak Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium casertanum - Ubiquitous Pea Clam
>
> Pisidium adamsi - Adams' Pea Clam
>
>
> Most of which grow no larger than 2-3 mm.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 24-Mar-07, at 5:34 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote:
>
>
>> Dear All, March 24, 2007
>>
>> While sweeping rotting grass and debris in transient pools of a
>> drainage ditch today I encountered hundreds of small bivalves (~1-2
>> mm long; dirty yellow, translucent and darker near the hinge),
>> presumably young freshwater clams of some kind.
>>
>>
>> Logically, freshwater clams would spawn early in the spring, so
>> that the mobile phase would have maximum chance of reaching wet pools
>> that are cut off later in the summer. If this is in fact the case
>> (does anyone know when they do spawn ?) then are these clams at least
>> 12 months old or can they grow rapidly enough to be this year's crop ?
>>
>>
>> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>>
>>
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> Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History
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> 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6
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