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Mussel of the Month
The April 2005 Mussel of the Month is Scabies crispata. Scabies is an unfortunately named genus of five species found from southeastern Asia.
[Since 2018 and the splitting of Scabies crispata sensu lato, the shell depicted here as gone by Scabies mandarinus. — DLG]
We know very little about Scabies crispata except that it belongs to the family Unionidae; its affinities within that family have not been evaluated phylogenetically. S. crispata has unhooked glochidia and broods its larvae in all four demibranchs ("gills").
Classification:
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Palaeoheterodonta
Order Unionoida
Superfamily Unionoidea Rafinesque, 1820
Family Unionidae s.s.
Genus Scabies Haas, 1911
Species Scabies crispata (Gould, 1843)
[+ Unio mandarinus Morelet, 1863]
For more information, check out the following:
- Woodward, F.R. 1969. The morphology of Ensidens ingallsianus (Lea, 1852) and Scabies crispata (Gould, 1843). Vidensk Meddr dansk naturh. Foren 132: 49-62.
- Brandt, R.A.M. 1974. The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 105(1-4):1-423.
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