Development of a suitable diet for endangered juvenile oyster mussels, Epioblasma capsaeformis (Bivalvia:Unionidae), reared in a captive environment
<p> Epioblasma capsaeformis, commonly named the oyster mussel, once occupied thousands of miles of stream reaches, but has now been reduced in range to small, isolated populations in a few river reaches. Due to this significant decline in population numbers, a study was conducted to develop a...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36396 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12222008-102753/ |