Sagittunio nasutus | |
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Scientific classification | |
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 | |
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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).
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