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Illinois Mussels
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Resources

Print:
Cummings, Kevin S. and Mayer, Christine A. 1992. Field Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest. Illinois Natural History Survey, Manual 5.

Parmalee, P.W. 1967. The Freshwater Mussels of Illinois. Illinois State Museum Popular Science Series 8.

Web:
Freshwater Mollusk Links from the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu/FMCS/links.html

INSH Survey's Mussel Collection
https://128.174.172.76/cbd/collections/mollusk.html

National Park Service page on Mississippi River mussels.
https://www.nps.gov/miss/features/mussels/aboutmussel.html

University of Wisconsin Seagrant pages on Zebra Mussels.
https://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/

Unio Gallery of Christopher Barnhart at Southeast Missouri State University.
https://courses.smsu.edu/mcb095f/gallery/

A Muscatine, Iowa school Web site on mussels.
https://www.muscatine.k12.ia.us/was/History/pearlbuttons/Index.htm


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