Duck mussel

Duck mussel
Duck mussel, Anodonta anatina
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionoida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Anodonta
Species:	A. anatina
Binomial name
Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Duck mussel, Anodonta anatina, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Synonym: Anodonta piscinalis Nilsson, 1823

Subspecies:

• Anodonta anatina anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Anodonta anatina radiata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
• Anodonta anatina attenuata Held, 1836

Distribution

Its native distribution is European-Siberian.

• Croatia
• Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,^[2] least concern (LC)^[3]
• Germany
  • Germany - (Arten der Vorwarnliste)^[4]
  • Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
• Isle of Man - found at Lhen mouth (1922-25) and at Guilcagh (1985). Not protected by Wildlife Act 1990.
• Ireland - found sporadically throughout the Shannon-Erne waterways and in Lough Neagh^[5]
• Netherlands - yes ^[6]
• Russia
  • Sverdlovsk oblast - yes ^[7]
• Slovakia
• Sweden - it is the most widely distributed large freshwater bivalve in Sweden ^[8]

References

1. ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 11 Feb 2007.
2. ^ (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.
3. ^ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
4. ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
5. ^ EPA State of the Environment Report 2004, Chapter 6
6. ^ http://www.anemoon.org/anm/voorlopige-kaarten/zoetwatermollusken/wetenschappelijk/anodonta-anatina/
7. ^ http://ecoinf.uran.ru/content/4catalog/2.shtml
8. ^ [1] cited 16 February 2007

External links

• PAN Pesticides Database - Chemical Toxicity Studies

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