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Barry S. Payne, Andrew C. Miller, Growth and Survival of Recent Recruits to a Population of Fusconaia ebena (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the Lower Ohio River, The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 121, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 99-104
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