Female snuffbox mussel

Photo By/Credit

Megan Bradley/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
02/16/2024
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
A female snuffbox mussel siphoning water at the surface of the substrate. The "teeth" along the shell are used to hold fish when mussels catch them to infest them with their larvae.
Subject tags
Freshwater mussels
Mollusks