Texas Fauna Project

Texas Hornshell

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Alexander "Sasha" Karatayev is a professor and director at the Great Lakes Center at SUNY-Buffalo. He has spent many years studying Unionids (freshwater mussels) around the world, including the endangered Texas hornshell found in the Rio Grande basin. Here he explains why Unionid populations are suffering globally, and need public support for their protection.