Unio pictorum

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Painter's mussel
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Left valve of a brown shell
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Unio
Species:
U. pictorum
Binomial name
Unio pictorum
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Distribution of Unio pictorum in Europe.
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Internal view of both valves
Unio pictorum is moving on the muddy bottom of a freshwater lake. Russia, the Southern Urals.

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. [2]

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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.

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Distribution

The native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia (Russia). [1]

Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.

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References

  1. 1 2 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 . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234102 on 2023-01-09
  3. 1 2 (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.
  4. ↑ Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.
  5. ↑ "Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic".
  6. ↑ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN   3-923376-02-2
  7. ↑ "Schildersmossel - Unio pictorum".
  8. ↑ "Natuurinformatie - Vragen".
  9. ↑ Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

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