Painter's mussel
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| Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) |
The painter's mussel, Unio pictorum, is a mussel of the family Unionidae.
[edit] Distribution and conservation status
- not mentioned in IUCN Red List - Not Evaluated (NE)[1]
Its native distribution is Europe.
- Czech Republic
- least concern (LC)[2] [3]
- Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
- Germany
- endangered (gefährdet).[4]
- Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Netherlands - ?
- Slovakia - not in red lists
- Sweden - not so common, scaterred occurrence[5]
Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited February 11 2007.
- ^ 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
- ^ Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
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[edit] External links
- http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id2993
- http://clade.acnatsci.org/mussel/m/mom/archive/2005/05-11.html
- Pesticides Database - Chemical Toxicity Studies
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