Habitat
Where do they live?
Stagnicola emarginata live on stony or gravel substrate
(Michigan inland lakes partnership 2010). This is usually on the open shores of
large lakes.
A few examples of where
they inhabit are the Great Lakes, especially the
southern portion of Lake Ontario
(Myers et al. 2006).
They are also found from Maine west to Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The St. Lawrence pondsnail is also found from the Canadian
Interior Basin south to Michigan. Other areas where it has
been found is in Pennsylvania and New York
(Burch 1982).
Other organisms living in the same habitat (food web):
Stagnicola emarginata share their habit in the Great Lakes
with many organisms. Some examples of organisms That are
eaten by the
mollusks in the food web are diatoms, green algae, blue-green
algae, flagellates, rotifers, and different types of water
fleas. A few organisms at the same level as the mollusks
in the food web are amphipods, zebra and quagga mussels, and
opossum shrimp. Examples of animals that are predators to
the mollusks are
lake whitefish, round goby, slimy sculpin, rainbow smelt, yellow
perch, and alewife. Some predators to this group are the burbot, lake and brown and rainbow trout, chinook
and coho and atlantic salmon, smallmouth bass, walleye,
and american eel (National oceanic and
atmospheric administration 2002).
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