Unio pictorum
Unio pictorum, the painter's mussel, is a species of medium-sized freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
| Painter's mussel | |
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| External view of left valve of the shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Unio |
| Species: | U. pictorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Unio pictorum | |
Internal view of both valves
This species lives in Europe. It is called the "painter's mussel" because the shell was historically used as a conveniently sized and shaped receptacle for holding artist's paint.
Distribution
The native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia (Russia).[1]
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] least concern (LC);[3][4] Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
- Slovakia[2] - not in red lists
- Estonia – frequent.
- Germany
- endangered (gefährdet)[5]
- Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Netherlands - Common (algemeen)[6][7]
- Russia
- Sweden - not so common, scattered occurrence[8]
- British Isles - mostly in England
Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.
References
- Van Damme, D. (2011). "Unio pictorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T155543A4795613. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T155543A4795613.en.
- (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.
- 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".
- (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- "Schildersmossel - Unio pictorum".
- "Natuurinformatie - Vragen".
- Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
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