Brooding female (9708323889)
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Summary[edit] Description: A brooding female winged mapleleaf mussel is displaying her lure for catfish, the host fish for her larvae. Catfish like to eat dead things and the mussel mimics a dead mussel to attract the host fish. The lure resembles rotting flesh and the female is gaping similar to a recently deceased mussel. Credit: Chris Barnhart/Missouri State University. Date: 9 September 2013, 11:51. Source: Brooding female Uploaded by AlbertHerring. Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Bivalvia (mussels)
- Unionida
- Unionoidea
- Unionidae (unionid freshwater mussels)
- Quadrula
- Quadrula fragosa (Rough Maple Leaf Pearly Mussel)
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