Pisidium stewarti | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Sphaeriida |
Family: | Sphaeriidae |
Genus: | Pisidium |
Species: | P. stewarti
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Binomial name | |
Pisidium stewarti Preston, 1909
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Pisidium stewarti is a species of minute freshwater clam. It is an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae, the fingernail clams and pea clams.
This minute clam, which is known in Europe as a decidedly Pleistocene glacial species, has also been identified as a Recent species in the Central Asian high mountainous massifs of Tien Shan, the Pamir Mountains and the Himalaya.[2]
The recent distribution includes: