Unio pictorum
| Painter's mussel | |
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| External view of left valve of the shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Unio |
| Species: | U. pictorum
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| Binomial name | |
| 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.
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
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b (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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