 Buy
Books on Seashells
The class Bivalvia (or Pelecypoda) contains the bivalve mollusks including
clams, oysters, scallops, and so forth.
GENERAL
 Cool
Things About Mollusks. University of Michigan. An illustrated article
about extreme sexual dimorphism in some species of bivalves.
FRESHWATER
Field
Guide to Freshwater Mussels of the Midwest. Kevin S. Cummings and
Christina Mayer. Illinois Natural History Survey. An online version of
the printed manual of the same name. This site is a great asset on the
web and is very well done.
Unio Gallery.
M.C. Barnhart. The Unio Gallery is a very nice collection of photographs
with explanatory material on the freshwater pearly mussels.
Alabama
Mollusks. Freshwater Bivalves. Deborah Wills. Photographs of the freshwater
bivalves of Alabama. This page also includes information on the biology
and economic importance of the Zebra Mussel.
Florida
Department of Environmental Protection. An Identification guide to
the freshwater clams of Florida to download in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
The reader will need to download and Adobe Acrobat reader to read this
file (http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html)
Rhode
Island Freshwater Clams and Mussels. Information and drawings of some
freshwater clams and mussels from Rhode Island.
Aquatic
Mollusks of North Dakota. Photographs and distribution maps of aquatic
mollusks in North Dakota.
Endangered
Mollusks: Images. Photographs and information about North American
species of freshwater bivalves.
MARINE
The Assateague
Naturalist. This site contains photographs and basic information on
the sea shells (both bivalves and gastropods) and other things found on
Assateague Beach in Virginia.
Marine
Resources Center. Marine bivalves. Figures and bibliographies of the
marine bivalves found in the Woods Hole Region of the northern Atlantic
Coast.
Marine
Biology Database. California Polytechnic Institute. Photographs of
and information about West Coast marine mollusks.
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