Painter's mussel
Left valve of a brown shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Unio
Species:
U. pictorum
Binomial name
Unio pictorum
Distribution of Unio pictorum in Europe.
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]

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.

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b (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

External links

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

  • Unio pictorum deshayesii Right valve
    Unio pictorum deshayesii
    Right valve
  • Unio pictorum deshayesii Left valve
    Unio pictorum deshayesii
    Left valve
  • Unio pictorum latirostris Right valve
    Unio pictorum latirostris
    Right valve
  • Unio pictorum latirostris Left valve
    Unio pictorum latirostris
    Left valve
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