Painter's mussel

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Painter's mussel

Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Unio
Species: U. pictorum
Binomial name
Unio pictorum
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The painter's mussel, Unio pictorum, is a mussel of the family Unionidae.

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[edit] Distribution and biotope

Distribution: Europe, ...

Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.

[edit] Conservation status

  • not mentioned in IUCN Red List - Not Evaluated (NE)[1]
  • Czech Republic
    • least concern (LC)[2] [3]
    • Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
  • Germany - endangered (gefährdet).[4]
  • Netherlands - ?
  • Slovakia - not in red lists
  • Sweden - not so common, scaterred occurence

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited February 11 2007.
  2. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  3. ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  4. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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