Curator of Aquatic Invertebrates

Arthur.Bogan@ncmail.net
(919) 733-7450 x753

Ph.D., Anthropology (Zooarchaeology), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1980
M.A., Anthropology (Zooarchaeology), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1976
B.A., Anthropology, Washington State Univ., 1972

Focus is on developing a phylogeny of the freshwater bivalves of the world. This work is done in collaboration with Dr. Walter R. Hoeh of Kent State University, Kent, OH. Other research interests lie in developing a handbook on land and freshwater gastropods of North Carolina. Three grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allow for work on systematics of freshwater bivalves in North Carolina and a freshwater gastropod.

Workbook and Key to the Freshwater Bivalves of
North Carolina (PDF, 2.8MB)    Color Plates (PDF, 3.3MB)
This is an introductory resource for learning to identify the state's freshwater bivalves or clams. It was developed for N.C. Department of Transportation biologists participating in a February 2002 workshop, and subsequently revised based on their comments. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these files.

It features:

• Figures illustrating landmarks on the shells of freshwater bivalves that are important for their identification.
• Use of only shell characteristics so that dead shells or isolated valves may be identified. Knowledge of mussel anatomy not required.
• Color images of 58 species of freshwater bivalves that occur in North Carolina. Fifty-six of these belong to the native family Unionidae. The introduced Asian clam and the fingernail clams (Sphaeriidae) are included in the key only to family level.

An introduction to the literature on freshwater bivalves of North Carolina and a list of Web sites about freshwater mollusks of North America also are included.

Mollusk Bibliography Database

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See http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu:591/mollusk/biblio.html for a searchable database of literature on freshwater mussels and to a lesser extent, other freshwater mollusks. With around 12,000 references, the database covers freshwater mussels worldwide and includes paleontological literature, “gray” literature, theses, and dissertations. Maintained by Kevin Cummings (Illinois Natural History Survey), Dr. Arthur Bogan (North Carolina Museum of Natural History), Dr. G. Thomas Watters (Ohio State University, Museum), and C. A. Mayer (Illinois Natural History Survey), the database is a work in progress. Users are encouraged to notify the authors of errors and omissions. Supported by a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Peer-reviewed

Bogan, A. E. 2001. Extinction wave in the making. In The Red Book: The Extinction Crisis Face to Face, eds. A. Bräutigam and M. D. Jenkins, 138–139. Mexico City:International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and CEMEX, S.A.

Bogan, A. E., and K. S. Cummings. 2001. An introduction to the freshwater mollusks of North America: taxonomy and information sources. In: Taxonomy and systematics of the freshwater mollusks of North America: An introduction, ed. A. E. Bogan, 1-36. Workbook prepared for North American Benthological Society, Technical Information Workshop, 49^th Annual Meeting, La Crosse, Wisc.

Hoeh, W. R., A. E. Bogan and W. H. Heard. 2001. A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of morphological and reproductive characteristics in the Unionoida. In: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Freshwater Mussels, Unionoida, eds. G. Bauer and K. Wächtler, 257-280. Ecological Studies Vol. 145. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag.

McMahon, R. F., and A. E. Bogan. 2001. Mollusca: Bivalvia. In: Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates, 2nd edition, eds. J. H. Thorpe, and A. P. Covich. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Hoeh, W. R. and A. E. Bogan. 2000.

Bogan, A.E., and W. R. Hoeh. 2000. On becoming cemented: evolutionary relationships among the genera in the freshwater bivalve family Etheriidae (Bivalvia: Unionoida). In: The evolutionary biology of the Bivalvia, eds. E. M. Harper, J. D. Taylor and J. A. Crame, 159-168. Special Publication 177, December. London: Geological Society.

Torrens H.S., E. Benamy, E. B. Daeschler, E. E. Spamer and A. E. Bogan. 2000. Etheldred Benett of Wiltshire, England, the first lady geologist—Her fossil collection in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the rediscovery of "lost" specimens of Jurassic Trigoniidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) with their soft anatomy preserved. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 150:59-123.

Bogan, A. E. and P. Bouchet. 1999. Cementation in the freshwater bivalve family Corbiculidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): a new genus and species from Lake Poso, Indonesia. Hydrobiologia 389:131-139.

Hoeh, W. R., A. E. Bogan, K. S. Cummings, and S. E. Guttman. 1998 (1999). Evolutionary relationships among the higher taxa of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida): inferences on phylogeny and character evolution from analyses of DNA sequence data. Malacological Review 31:111-130.

Spamer, E. E. and A. E. Bogan. 2002. Contrasting objectives in environmental mediation, reconnaissance biology, and endangered species protection, a case study in the Kanab Amersnail, Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis Pilsbry, 1948 (Gastropods: Stylommatophora: Succineidae). Walkerana 9(22):177–215.