Pisidium tenuilineatum

Pisidium tenuilineatum, the fine-lined pea mussel, is a species of very small freshwater bivalve in the family Sphaeriidae.

Pisidium tenuilineatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Sphaeriida
Family:	Sphaeriidae
Genus:	Pisidium
Species:	P. tenuilineatum
Binomial name
Pisidium tenuilineatum Stelfox, 1918

Distribution

The species is native to Europe.

• British Isles – listed in List of endangered species in the British Isles. It is rare in Great Britain.[1]
• Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] critically endangered[3][4]
• Denmark[5]
• Germany – high endangered (Stark gefährdet)[6]
• Poland – Near Threatened (NT, mentioned as lower risk LR)[7][8]
• Netherlands[9]
• Slovakia – endangered[10]
• Sweden[5]
• and other states

References

1. Action plan for Pisidium tenuilineatum. UK Biodiversity Action Plan, accessed 17 May 2009.
2. (in 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.
3. tiscali.cz), Michal Manas (michal.manas [at]. "Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic". mollusca.sav.sk.
4. Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
5. Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A.; Knudsen, J.; Koli, L.; von Proschwitz, T.; Valovirta, I. (1989), "Geographical distribution of the small mussels (Sphaeriidae) in North Europe (Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)" (PDF), Annales Zoologici Fennici, 26 (2): 73–101
6. (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
7. "Pisidium tenuilineatum - Polska Czerwona Księga Zwierząt - Bezkręgowce".
8. Polska czerwona księga zwierząt. Bezkręgowce
9. "Anemoon > Flora en Fauna > Soorteninformatie". www.anemoon.org.
10. (in Czech) Měkkýši (Mollusca) České republiky a Slovenska

Further reading

• Kuiper J.G.J. (1981). "The distribution of Pisidium tenuilineatum Stelfox and Pisidium annandalei Prashad in the Mediterranean area". Basteria, Leiden, 45: 79-84.