Sinanodonta woodiana
The Chinese pond mussel, Eastern Asiatic freshwater clam or swan-mussel, scientific name Sinanodonta woodiana, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Distribution
- indigenous in Eastern Asia
- non-indigenous in Europe:
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Bohemia since 2001,[2] non-indigenous in Moravia since 1996;[3][4][5] not evaluated (NE)[2]
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Italy
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia [6]
- Slovakia [7]
- Ukraine
- non-indigenous in some Indonesian islands
- non-indigenous in America:
Ecology
Parasites:
References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 17 May 2007.
- ^ a b Beran, L. (2002) Vodní měkkýši České Republiky - rozšíření a jeho změny, stanoviště, šíření, ohrožení a ochrana, červený seznam. Aquatic moluscs of the Czech Republic - distribution and its changes, habitats, dispersal, threat and protection, Red List. - Sborník přírodovědného klubu v Uherském Hradišti, Supplementum 10, 258 pp.
- ^ Beran L. (1997). "First record of Sinanodonta woodiana (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Czech Republic". Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 1-2.
- ^ Novák J. (2004) Třetí potvrzený nález škeble asijské v ČR. http://www.biolib.cz/cz/article/id2/
- ^ (Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ^ Distribution of Anodonta (Sinanodonta) woodiana (Rea, 1834) in inland waters of Serbia http://www.aquaticinvasions.ru/2006/AI_2006_1_3_Paunovic_etal.pdf
- ^ Nagel K.-O. & Šteffek J. 2005: Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea) na východnom Slovensku. – Telekia (Michalovce), 3: 35–36.
- ^ Pavljuchenko, O. V. (2005) The first record of the helminth Aspidogaster conchicola (Aspidogastrea) in Sinanodonta woodiana (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Ukraine. - Vestnik Zoologii, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vol. 39(3): page 50.
External links
Article in Italian about colonies expanding in lake Verbano with picture.