Digitized Collection Catalogues, Accession Ledgers, and Field Data Sheets
Links to Freshwater Mussel Resources
- Watters,G.T., Hoggarth, M.A. & Stansbery, D.H. 2009. The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio. The Ohio State University Press.
- Ohio Mussel Atlas - An ArcGIS map with all OSUM mussel specimens plotted on it, with HUC and County Overlays.
- mussemapR - A webapp with mussel distribution data from most major US natural history collections.
History of the Mollusk Collection
The history of the Division, its curatorial practices and its constituent collections is detailed in the following publications:
- Cavender, T., Condit, J., Stansbery, D., Stein, C., & Trautman, M. (1982). Featured Institution–The Ohio State University Museum of Zoology. The Association of Systematics Collections Newsletter, 10(5), 55–58.
- Stansbery, D., & Stein, C. (1983). Mollusk Collections at The Ohio State University Museum of Zoology. (pp. 94–113) in Miller, A.C. (Comp.) Report of Freshwater Mussels Workshop Held at St. Louis, Missouri on 26-27 October 1982.
Other useful resources will be added in the future, as this page is under construction.
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