Keyword: Sneedville
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INV004-00143
A shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor) from the Clinch River near Sneedville, Tennessee. This mussel is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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INV004-00142
An oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis) from the Clinch River near Sneedville, Tennessee. This oyster is displaying its blue-white mantle. This species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
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INV004-00141
A cracking pearly mussel (Hemistena lata) from the Clinch River near Sneedville, Tennessee. This species is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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INV004-00140
A rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum) from the Clinch River near Sneedville, Tennessee. This species is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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INV004-00139
A rough rabbitsfoot mussel (Quadrula cylindrica strigilatta) collected from the Clinch River near Sneedville, Tennessee. This species is federally listed as Endangered by the USFWS.
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ONA007-00144
Mussel biologist Steve Ahlstedt shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.
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ESA001-00091
A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.
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ESA001-00092
A mussel shows off coal fines, the sediments from Virginia’s coal mines that wash into the rivers of Tennessee. It is thought that coal fines and the use of heavy industrial chemicals to clean coal in Viriginia are both major factors in the disappearance of rare Mussels in the Clinch and Powell Rivers, two of the last places where many rare mussels were found.
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PLA007-00101
Creeping flox along a roadside in rural Tennessee.
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ANI041-00015
Mussels taken from the Clinch River near Sneedville. Shown is the elktoe mussel (Alasmidonta marginata).
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ANI041-00014
Snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra), a species found in the eastern US. Remaining populations are small and isolated.
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ANI041-00013
Mussels taken from the Clinch River near Sneedville. Shown is the elktoe mussel (Alasmidonta marginata).
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ANI041-00012
Mussels taken from the Clinch River near Sneedville. Shown is the sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus.) This species occurs in the Clinch, Powell, Duck, Holston Rivers, as well as some Northern Rivers. It is currently not rare.
