Panboola School Water Bug Survey

This is a School Water Bug Survey guide for Panboola based on records from the Atlas of Living Australia http://alcw.ala.org.au/bdrs-core/alcw/fieldguide/taxa.htm?groupId=271

Freshwater Mussel

Hyriidae is a taxonomic family of pearly freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the order Unionoida. This family is native to South America, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Like all members of that order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium).

Edited by Scott Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)