Weiss, J. L. and J. B. Layzer (1995).  Infestations of glochidia on fishes in 
the Barren River, Kentucky. American Malacological Bulletin.  11:153-159.
	
We collected fish monthly from the Barren River, Kentucky, to assess glochidial 
infestations. Glochidia were encysted on 4.1% of the 2,510 fish of 43 species 
examined. Twenty-five fish species in 11 families were infested; 14 of these 
species are not known to be hosts of any of the 27 mussel species (Unionidae) 
occurring in the Barren River. Amblemine glochidia occurred on 19 species of 
fish. Eight species of fish were infested with anodontine glochidia, while 
lampsiline glochidia occurred on only five species. Differences in the degree of 
host specificity were striking among the Ambleminae. Glochidia of Amblema 
plicata (Say, 1817) occurred on 12 species of fish, whereas those of Quadrula 
pustulosa (I. Lea, 1831) were found only on channel catfish [Ictalurus punctatus 
(Rafinesque, 1818)]. Overlap in host fishes occurred between the Ambleminae and 
the other subfamilies, but not between the Anodontinae and Lampsilinae. 
Potential new hosts are identified for Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823), 
Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820), Megalonaias nervosa (Rafinesque, 1820), A. 
plicata, and Pleurobema spp.