Image: Brooding female (9708323889)
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Description: A brooding female winged mapleleaf mussel is displaying her lure for catfish, the host fish for her larvae. Catfish like to eat dead things and the mussel mimics a dead mussel to attract the host fish. The lure resembles rotting flesh and the female is gaping similar to a recently deceased mussel. Credit: Chris Barnhart/Missouri State University
Title: Brooding female (9708323889)
Credit: Brooding female Uploaded by AlbertHerring
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
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