Swollen river mussel
| Swollen river mussel | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionoida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Unio |
| Species: | U. tumidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Unio tumidus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
The swollen river mussel, scientific name Unio tumidus, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
Distribution
Its native distribution is European.
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] vulnerable (VU)[3][4]
- Germany
- Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet) [5]
- Germany - Listed as a specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Latvia
- Lithuania - vulnerable
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Sweden[6]
- British Isles - in England
References
- ↑ Van Damme, D. (2011). "Unio tumidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Swollen river mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
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