Top Level : Harvesting : Mussels : Mussel Species

The Zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771), is a small triangular mussel with brown and cream-colored stripes. It was introduced into the Great Lakes from Europe in the 1980s and is spreading throughout the Mississippi River drainage.
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Photograph by Robert E. Warren, Illinois State Museum.

The <b>Zebra mussel</b>, <i>Dreissena polymorpha</i> (Pallas, 1771), is a small triangular mussel with brown and cream-colored stripes. It was introduced into the Great Lakes from Europe in the 1980s and is spreading throughout the Mississippi River drainage.<br>Illinois State Museum Collection (ISM)