Sagittunio nasutus

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Sagittunio nasutus
Ligumia nasuta - Springfield Science Museum - Springfield, MA - DSC03465.JPG
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Subfamily: Ambleminae
Tribe: Lampsilini
Genus: Sagittunio
Species:
S. nasutus
Binomial name
Sagittunio nasutus
(Say, 1817)
Synonyms
  • Lampsilis (Eurynia) nasuta(Say, 1817)
  • Lampsilis (Eurynia) nasutus(Say, 1817)
  • Lampsilis (Ligumia) nasuta(Say, 1817)
  • Lampsilis nasuta(Say, 1817)
  • Ligumia nasuta(Say, 1817)
  • Margarita (Unio) nasutus(Say, 1817)
  • Margaron (Unio) nasutus(Say, 1817)
  • Obliquaria (Ellipsaria) attenuataRafinesque, 1820 (synonym)
  • Unio nasutusSay, 1817 (original combination)

Sagittunio nasutus, the eastern pondmussel, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. [2]

This species is native to the eastern United States and Ontario, Canada. [1] In Canada, the eastern pondmussel has been adversely affected by zebra mussels, which were introduced near the end of the 1980s. [3] Originally assessed as endangered due to the existence of only two known Canadian populations, [3] the eastern pondmussel was placed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act in 2013. [4] However, a reassessment by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada in 2017 identified seventeen additional subpopulations, [5] and the eastern pondmussel was relisted as "special concern" in August 2019. [4] The population of the lower Great Lakes has limited diversity in certain mitochondrial genetic markers compared to those of the eastern seaboard's population, evidence of a founder effect and suggestive of a post-glacial arrival of Atlantic coast mussels to the Great Lakes by a restricted route. [5] :7 [6] The Walpole Island First Nation protects a population of eastern pondmussels residing in their tribal waters within the delta of Lake St. Clair. [3] :12

Like many Unionoid mussels, female eastern pondmussels display a lure to attract their fish hosts (see video, right).

Female Ligumia nasuta displaying her lure

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References

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  3. 1 2 3 COSEWIC (2007). "COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Eastern Pondmussel Ligumia nasuta in Canada". Ottawa: Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. ISBN   978-0-662-46023-7 . Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Eastern Pondmussel (Ligumia nasuta)". Species at risk public registry. Government of Canada. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
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  6. Scott, Mariah Wild; Begley, Matthew T.; Krebs, Robert A.; Zanatta, David T. (2014). "Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Eastern Pondmussel, Ligumia nasuta (Bivalvia: Unionoida), in the Great Lakes Region". Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation. 17 (2): 60–67. doi: 10.31931/fmbc.v17i2.2014.60-67 .