World Wide Web: Links to Other Sites

Who Made this Site?

• Daniel Graf — mollusk curator at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
• Kevin Cummings — mollusk curator at the Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign.

Find out more about our home institutions at Wikipedia: Bama, INHS.

Freshwater Mussel Links at INHS

• Freshwater Mussel Genera of the World — Illustrated guide to the Earth's unionoid genera.
• Freshwater Mollusk Bibliography — Searchable database of freshwater mollusk literature.
• Systematic Research Collections — Directory of worldwide collections of fossil and Recent Mollusca.
• Unionid Researchers — Registry of freshwater malacologists and others interested in mollusks.
• Famous (Past) Malacologists — Biographic references to historical malacologists.

Freshwater Mussel (Unionoida) Links:

• MUSSEL Project Web Site — This site! Hosted by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Chris Barnhart's Unio Gallery — Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. There is a valuable "Links" page on this site.
• Ohio Mussel Atlas — From the Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity.
• Freshwater Molluscan Shells: Bivalvia = Pelecypoda — Page by Martin Kohl. There are some nice photographs on this page.
• Unionoida @ Forestry Images — Nice pics of some North American Species.
• Checklist of UK Recorded Unionoida.
• NatureServer Explorer's Unionoida page — Data on North American taxa.
• Mathiak Collection of Freshwater Mussels of Wisconsin — Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin, USA.
• Guide to the Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest — The online version of the field guide by Cummings & Mayer.
• North Carolina Freshwater Mussels — Provided by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
• Freshwater Mussels in Alabama — From OutdoorAlabama.com.
• Rhode Island Freshwater Clams and Mussels — by Michael A. Rice, Rhode Island Sea Grant Fact Sheet.
• Dallas Area Freshwater Mussels — by John Caldeira.
• Unionidae @ Animal Diversity Web — by Lisa Winhold. Hosted by the University of Michigan.
• Freshwater Mussel — by Doug Smith.
• Discover Freshwater Mussels: America's Hidden Treasure — by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
• Prehistoric Decline of Freshwater Mussels — by U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Freshwater Mussels of the Maumee Drainage — A compendium and guide to the unionids of the Maumee River and tributaries, by Jeff Grabarkiewicz & Todd Crail.
• Mussel/Host Database — Provided by the good people at Ohio State University.
• Checklist of the Invertebrate Animals of Lake Malawi — Compiled by Michael K. Oliver.
• Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana — Land & Freshwater Mollusca volume online, by Eduard von Martens (1890-1901).
• UnionidTube — See movies of mussels.

Other 'Mussel Projects' Links:

• The Alaskan Freshwater Mussel Project.
• St. Olaf College Mussel Research Project.
• The Pacific Shellfish Institute’s Mussel Project.
• LaCrosse Fishery Resources Office Zebra Mussel Project.
• St. Michael's College Zebra Mussel Project.
• Icelandic Blue Mussel Project.
• CTUIR Fresh Water Mussel Project.
• The Invasive Mussel Project (IMP).
• NOAA National Status and Trends Program Mussel Watch Project.
• Pacific Northwest Native Mussel Projects.

Important Freshwater Mollusk Collections:

• The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• The Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Delaware Museum of Natural Hisory, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
• Field Musem of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Ohio State University Museum of Biological Diversity, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• The American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
• The National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), Washington, D.C., USA.
• The Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada.
• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
• Natural History Museum, London, UK.
• Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Other Bivalve Links:

• PEET Bivalves at FMNH and AMNH. — By Rüdiger Bieler & Paula Mikkelsen.
  • Western Atlantic Bivalves.
• Bivatol. — Taxonomy on the Half-Shell: Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life.
• CLECOM Project. — Checklist of the Continental European Mollusca.

Other Mollusk Links:

• Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society — Aimed at preserving freshwater mollusks and their habitats. There is a valuable "Links" page on this site.
• UNITAS Malacologica — Unitas Malacologica is the society for worldwide malacologists and malacology.
• American Malacological Society — Scientific organization that promotes the study of mollusks.
• Malacological Society of Australasia — Learn about the study of mollusks Down Under.
• Tree of Life Project — Link directly to the phylogeny of mollusks.
• Mollusca Evolution Listserver — Join the discussion!

Mussel-Vector Links:

• All Catfish Species Project — by John Lundberg, Mark Sabaj and others.
• AMNH Ichthyology Congo Project — by Melanie Stiassny and Bob Schelly.

Phylogenetics Links:

• Phylogenetics: Just Methods — by Mark Sidall at the American Museum.
• Phylogenetic Systematics — by Willi Hennig. Link to Google's online copy of the classic text.
• PHYLIP Home Page — by Joe Felsenstein at the University of Washington.
• PAUP Home Page — by David Swofford. Will it ever be updated?
• MacClade Home Page — by David & Wayne Maddison.
• GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology Information— Acquire some DNA sequences.
• MonkeySoftWerks.com — by Daniel Graf at the UA. Handy freeware to help deal with those DNA sequences.

Evolution Links:

• Evolution: A Journal into Where We're From and Where We're Going — the web site associated with the PBS program of the same name.
• Understanding Evolution: Your On-Stop Souce for Information on Evolution — by UC Berkeley.
• National Center for Science Education: Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools — site by NCSE.
• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — An impressive alternative to evolution by natural selection, by Bobby Henderson.
• Kansas Morons: Welcome to Kansas, Please Set Your Watch Back 100 Years.

Geography Links:

• NIMA: GEOnet Names Server (or ftp to their data sets directly) — Geographical data, including geo-referencing for the world, exclusive of the USA and Antarctica.
• USGS: Geographic Names Information System — Geographical data for the United States and Antarctica.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names — Another source of place names; covers the whole world.
• FuzzyG: The Fuzzy Gazetteer — A great place to find place names outside of the USA. And, it maps them, too! You can also get there from this interface.
• Google Maps — a great way to map the geocodes that you get from FuzzyG.
• Freshwater Ecoregions of the World — Produced by WWF and The Nature Conservancy.
• Views of the Earth from Space: Earth and Moon Viewer & NASA's Visible Earth.
• Online Map Creation — A really useful tool for making maps.
• Georeferencing Calculator — Nice tool from the makers of MaNIS.
• Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America — Images that track the ancient landscapes of North America. By Dr. Ron Blakey.
• Others: Topozone, National Atlas of the United States, Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns & Multimap (index of world maps).
• Institute for African Pumzikio & Exploration. — Forum for discussion of all things African.

Other Links:

• NSF and Fastlane — An important source of funding.
• Nomenclator Zoologicus — Taxon names galore!
• Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment — Data on the global diversity of freshwater animals, including mollusks.
• National Geographic Committee for Research & Exploration — a source of funding for field work.
• Google — Search the internet.
• Wixipedia.com — A nice online encyclopedia.
• Google Language Tools — Translation assistance.
• Altavista's Babelfish — More translation assistance.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library — get some papers.
• Universal Currency Converter — Provided by XE.com.
• Domestic Per Diem Rates — How much can we spend at home? From the U.S. General Services Administration.
• Foreign Per Diem Rates — These are updated monthly by the U.S. Department of State.