Checking for young mussels (6921441878)
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Summary[edit] Description: The biologists are looking for endangered Appalachian elktoe mussels that are carrying young mussels. They’ll be taken to a hatchery run by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission where the young will be grown and eventually released back to the wild to boost diminished populations. Credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/. Date: 22 March 2012, 12:27. Source: Checking for young mussels Uploaded by AlbertHerring. Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Bivalvia (mussels)
- Unionida
- Unionoidea
- Unionidae (unionid freshwater mussels)
- Alasmidonta (elktoe)
- Alasmidonta raveneliana (Appalachian elktoe)
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