Unio tumidus
Unio tumidus, the swollen river mussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Unio |
| Species: | U. tumidus |
| Binomial name | |
| Unio tumidus | |
Distribution
Its native distribution is European.[1][3]
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[4] vulnerable (VU)[5][6]
- Germany
- Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet) [7]
- Germany - Listed as a specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Latvia
- Lithuania - vulnerable
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Sweden[8]
- British Isles - in England
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References
- Van Damme, D. (2011). "Unio tumidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T156111A4898810. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T156111A4898810.en.
- "Unio tumidus Philipsson in Retzius, 1788". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- "Unio tumidus Philipson, 1788". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Secretariat, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- (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 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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