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r aol i Mussel Ad - a5 h fJ /w .new ildlife.or p 7 it duff pe�01' es onIp 7b l a l.15.hb Speclies Information and Status- woun ska. E$ & (OKURVAMPI yellow 1Ar PM e , La psYis carlosa (day, 1817) t P /ease Note.: Red text is defined in the (interigr )' es riptlon Bay desorihed thls speoie� In 1817 from the Goto ohoylkill river in Pennsylvania. The periostracum is smooth, -shiny, aM usually yellow with some . brownl h freckling or patches on some surface areas. Rays may he pr6sent - usually on the posterior slope but rarely. may a tend toward the Ent rior end, resulting in over half the shell being rayed. -Females are obovate or suhovAte resulting in .a rather, shdrt high shape. Males are elongate ana ellip ioel. Shells may reach 130 mm in le�igth (Johnson 1976), The nacre is usually white to bluish WHte. Britton and Fuller (1979) and FTer and sere a (1974) add that a dlstinguishling , ohara teel tic of female. yelloVv lampmussels is the: development of the mantle, anterior to a larger darkly - i anent "eyespot,' into ra strongly developed flap-,of tissue on each rbari le iohe+ Also, the ven' tral margin of the r�arsupium 'I'S darkly igmerrted B ritton and Fuller t R79). Distribuflor Ljge n a h 'y'ello r lampmussel is found from the 'lower Ottawa River, Canada e s aid to the Sydney river, Nova Scotia then south to the o eeohea River Drainage min in beorgis John oh 1970). At one time this spedes probably ranged throLghoL t most of the Atlantic Slope dfainages in North ar-diinak however, hstorioal, records provided by 4phrison (1 970) core, from the Cooper` - Santee, Waooan a , Cape Fear, reuse, Pamlico, and Chowan drainages: It appears,that this spedles has been recently eat €rpc!ted from the Black River in Sampson, Bladen, and Pendef counties and from rein Creek n' ante ounty- :Drstr•ibutign by Counter. Pee-Dee River Basin. Montgomery Co. (title Diver Hasid). Waccaimaw River airy+ Columbus Co. (Lake Waccarn w). Came'Fear riverµ,Basin; Randolph Co. (Deep river); Moore (Deep river); Chatham (Deep river)# Lee o: (.Deep fiver) Harnett Co. (Cape Fear River); Cumberland counties (Cape Fear Kwer), Neese • fiver Basirnr Pefson Co, (Flat giver ubbast , Durham Co. (Flat and Uttle aver subhasins), orange Co. (Ergo river ubbasin), Johnston Co. (Little Diver ubbasin). Tat fi r Basin; ranAle Co. (Tar Elver basin), Franklin Co. (Sandy Cr,, Subbasin and Tar River), -Nash Co. Swlft and Fishing creek. subba ins and Tar River), Ed eoombe Co. Rshinq Cr, Subbasih and Tar river), Halifax o. L. Fishing and Fishing creek subbaslns). NO TE fig headwater areas fhaf flow into these occupied habitats should receive special management, Habitat Preferences E e e ,