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._._._.& c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > Hi dave, > > Are you sure they are not one of the Pea Clams (Pisidium spp.)? There > are a variety of species here in Nova Scotia: > Hi Chris, Thanks for the suggestion. My resources, and consequently my knowledge, with respect to land and freshwater Mollusca are zero. So it may well be a Pea Clam of some kind. Yt, DW > > Pisidium conventus - Arctic-Alpine Pea Clam > > Pisidium variable - Triangular Pea Clam > > Pisidium nitidum - Shiny Pea Clam > > Pisidium milium - Quadrangular Pea Clam > > Pisidium lilljeborgi - Lilleborg's Pea Clam > > Pisidium ferrugineum - Rusty Pea Clam > > Pisidium compressum - Ridge-Beak Pea Clam > > Pisidium casertanum - Ubiquitous Pea Clam > > Pisidium adamsi - Adams' Pea Clam > > > Most of which grow no larger than 2-3 mm. > > > Cheers! > > > Chris > > > On 24-Mar-07, at 5:34 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > > >> Dear All, March 24, 2007 >> >> While sweeping rotting grass and debris in transient pools of a >> drainage ditch today I encountered hundreds of small bivalves (~1-2 >> mm long; dirty yellow, translucent and darker near the hinge), >> presumably young freshwater clams of some kind. >> >> >> Logically, freshwater clams would spawn early in the spring, so >> that the mobile phase would have maximum chance of reaching wet pools >> that are cut off later in the summer. If this is in fact the case >> (does anyone know when they do spawn ?) then are these clams at least >> 12 months old or can they grow rapidly enough to be this year's crop ? >> >> >> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville >> >> > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > > Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History > > 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 > > (902) 424-6435 Email < c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca > <mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> > > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > >
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