Hello everybody,
habe einen kleinen Bericht auf Facebook bei Crustahunter und für die Non Facebooker anbei der Bericht. Hab es in englisch geschreiben aber ich gehe davon aus das ihr das lesen könnt.
blue skys
Chris
A couple of days ago I was in Alabama photographing snails and crayfish. I went to Paint Rock River to look if there is Cambarus rusticiformis as is mentioned in some papers. Unfortunatly i couldn't find any. I found some Orconectes forceps ;Orconectes erichsonianus and also this nice-looking snail. Asking the guys from the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division about the species name they told me that this may be Pleurocera canaliculatum but they can't be totally sure. It looks a little slender for that species, and there is another Pleurocera sp. in Paint Rock. It may be very well a new species. I hope i can do more work there in the future
The precipitous decline of North American freshwater mollusks has resulted in increased awareness of this fauna over the past two decades. With one of the most diverse assemblages of aquatic snails and the most diverse assemblage of mussels in the world, Alabama often has been the focal point of this interest. This state is, or was historically, home to 203 species of freshwater snails and 180 species of freshwater mussels.
habe einen kleinen Bericht auf Facebook bei Crustahunter und für die Non Facebooker anbei der Bericht. Hab es in englisch geschreiben aber ich gehe davon aus das ihr das lesen könnt.
blue skys
Chris
A couple of days ago I was in Alabama photographing snails and crayfish. I went to Paint Rock River to look if there is Cambarus rusticiformis as is mentioned in some papers. Unfortunatly i couldn't find any. I found some Orconectes forceps ;Orconectes erichsonianus and also this nice-looking snail. Asking the guys from the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division about the species name they told me that this may be Pleurocera canaliculatum but they can't be totally sure. It looks a little slender for that species, and there is another Pleurocera sp. in Paint Rock. It may be very well a new species. I hope i can do more work there in the future
The precipitous decline of North American freshwater mollusks has resulted in increased awareness of this fauna over the past two decades. With one of the most diverse assemblages of aquatic snails and the most diverse assemblage of mussels in the world, Alabama often has been the focal point of this interest. This state is, or was historically, home to 203 species of freshwater snails and 180 species of freshwater mussels.
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