Flat Floater
Fragile, large, flat (compressed), yellow shell often with green rays. Subcircular with straight dorsal margin. Compressed beaks sculptured with two diverging rows of shallow water. Flat Floaters can grow up to 8 in long. The Flat Floater is a large freshwater mussel. Flat Floaters are found in the backwater areas.
Structure & Function
Excurrent-Takes water in.
Incurrent-Takes water out.Foot-To walk.Mouth-To eat.Mantle-A loose,sleeveless cloak or cape acts like a fish.
Gills-Use for breating
Teeth-To eat things
Beak of shell-A shell to protect itself
Anterior adductor mussel-Open close the shell
Ligament-To connect bones
Tubercle-A bone
Sulcus-A furrow or groove
Beak-A mouthpart
Disc-Like a shell
Incurrent-Takes water out.Foot-To walk.Mouth-To eat.Mantle-A loose,sleeveless cloak or cape acts like a fish.
Gills-Use for breating
Teeth-To eat things
Beak of shell-A shell to protect itself
Anterior adductor mussel-Open close the shell
Ligament-To connect bones
Tubercle-A bone
Sulcus-A furrow or groove
Beak-A mouthpart
Disc-Like a shell
History of Mussel
Flat Floater l arvae (glochidia) are parasitic upon tissue of fish hosts while completing the metamorphosis into juvenile mussels. This freshwater mussel can grow quite rapidly and sometimes grows to more than 4 inches (100 mm) in length during its first two years. Despite being called the Flat Floater, adult mussels are typically sessile and are found attached or buried in the mud bottoms of lakes, creeks and backwater areas with slow currents. This species is often found in water that is less than 3 feet in depth and sometimes thrives in impounded areas. Adult mussels are filter feeders and usually feed upon plankton and detritus from their aquatic environment. Flat Floater mussels bring water from their habitat into their shells through specialized regions that are similar to the true siphons of clams. The water is then filtered over its gills and food particles are trapped and eventually digested.
Life Cycle
The life cycle for the flat floater is it starts with a sperm, then a young glochidia, then go on the host fish gills, then a juvenile, then sub-aduit, then to a aduilt a male or a female. Some of the details about the complex life cycle of this mussel are not currently known, but the life history of Anodonta suborbiculata is presumed to be similar to related species. Male Flat Floater mussels release sperm into the slow current of creeks, lakes and backwater areas of rivers. Sperm enters females through siphon-like regions and fertilization of eggs occurs within female shells. These fertilized eggs develop into special larva called glochidia. Glochidia continue to develop and are released into the water column when fully matured. This species is believed to be bradytictic (a long-term brooder). Bradytictic species usually spawn during the summer and release mature glochidia during late winter or spring. Parasitic glochidia must find and attach to the gills or fins of the appropriate host fish to complete development. Recent laboratory studies have determined that there are several suitable hosts for the widely distributed Flat Floater. The Golden Shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas), Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus), White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) and Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) are all suitable hosts. The glochidia parasitize a fish host for a variable length of time, likely depending upon water temperature, fish species and other factors. Larvae transform into juvenile mussels on the fish and then release from the host to find a suitable substrate, often the muddy bottom of slow-moving creeks and backwater areas of large rivers.
Threats to Mussels
Two threats to mussels is locks and dams.What they do to then is that they block the host fish to go to the mussels and so the mussels can not have any baby mussel. One other threats is human's keeping then, throwing then back in the river, breaking then, ect.Dramatic declines in numbers and diversity of mussels in many rivers, lakes, and streams across the eastern United States has been attributed to a variety of factors. These include degradation of their habitat by dams and impoundment, channelization and dredging, pollution, sedimentation, fish kills that eliminate potential host fish, and introduction of non-native species.Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) have nearly eliminated most native freshwater mussels in some portions of the Great Lakes. Zebra mussels are native to Europe and Asia and were transported to the United States in the ballast water of transatlantic ships navigating the Great Lakes.
Habitat & Food
For the flat floater habitat are Ponds,Lakes,Rivers,Mud-bottom,Sluggish. Food for the flat floater are fish poop,platon,
Ecological impact & Mobility
The mobility for my mussel flat floater is his foot. How he walk is he put his foot out and he pulls him self to his foot then he does it over and over again. They only move when the water gets to low, when they move they cant see so they can go in circles all day.
Sources
I got most of my info on google. I also go some on Flat Floater Mussel (Anodonta suborbiculata). I also got it on the school wiki. Also I got my info on
Tall Tail
It all started when a teenage boy names Jacob the was tall, huge, and with super powers found a tall, and huge mussel. Jacob had super powers that he could fly and read minds. The mussel is over 20ft long and over 20ft tall, and Jacob is over 2,000ft tall and 10ft wide.
Jacob found the wide and tall mussel on a large island in the Mississippi River. He could read the mussel's mind. The mussel was saying help me get in the water, so Jacob did with his flying power's. When he did the mussel thanked him! After that he and the mussel were friend's because Jacob saved the mussel from not living and not have babies. Later that day Jacob when home and went to big to small and normal size.
The next day he went to the Mississippi River to see the mussel and the mussel when back to normal size. Jacob went fishing for fish and put the right kind of fish near the mussel so the mussel can have babies. Then Jacob went to school and ask a question to his life science teacher about what kind of mussel he saw and the teacher said it was a Flat Floater. After that Jacob went back to the Mississippi River to the mussel and made a home for it and every once and a while he would go back to the mussel and check on the mussel.
THE END
Jacob found the wide and tall mussel on a large island in the Mississippi River. He could read the mussel's mind. The mussel was saying help me get in the water, so Jacob did with his flying power's. When he did the mussel thanked him! After that he and the mussel were friend's because Jacob saved the mussel from not living and not have babies. Later that day Jacob when home and went to big to small and normal size.
The next day he went to the Mississippi River to see the mussel and the mussel when back to normal size. Jacob went fishing for fish and put the right kind of fish near the mussel so the mussel can have babies. Then Jacob went to school and ask a question to his life science teacher about what kind of mussel he saw and the teacher said it was a Flat Floater. After that Jacob went back to the Mississippi River to the mussel and made a home for it and every once and a while he would go back to the mussel and check on the mussel.
THE END