Sphaerium rivicola
| River Orb Mussel | |
|---|---|
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| Conservation status | |
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Suborder: | Sphaeriacea |
| Family: | Sphaeriidae |
| Genus: | Sphaerium |
| Subgenus: | Amesoda |
| Species: | S. rivicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Sphaerium rivicola (Lamarck, 1818) | |
The River Orb Mussel (Sphaerium rivicola) is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.
Distribution
Its native distribution is European.
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] endangered[3]
- Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet)[4]
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 17 May 2007.
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
- ↑ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2