Unio (genus)

Unio (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Unio"


image_caption = "Unio pictorum" (Painter's mussel)
status =
trend =
status_system =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Unio"
genus_authority = Philipsson, 1788
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Unio" is a genus of medium-sized freshwater mussels which have pearly interiors. "Unio" is the type genus of the family Unionidae.

pecies

Species in this genus include:
* "Unio cariei" - extinct [Bouchet, P. & von Cosel, R. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/22740/all Unio cariei] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.]
* "Unio crassus" Philipsson, 1788 (Thick shelled river mussel) - near threatened
* "Unio mancus" Lamarck, 1819
* "Unio elongatulus" C. Pfeiffer, 1825
* "Unio pictorum" (Linnaeus, 1758) (Painter's mussel)
* "Unio tumidus" (Swollen river mussel)
* "Unio turtoni"
* "Unio valentianus" Rossmässler, 1854

References


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