Duck mussel

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

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