Painter's mussel

Painter's mussel

Taxobox
name = Painter's mussel


image_caption =
status = NE
trend =
status_system = iucn2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
ordo = Unionoida
familia = Unionidae
genus = "Unio"
species = "U. pictorum"
binomial = Unio pictorum
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

The painter's mussel, "Unio pictorum", is a species of medium-sized freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae. It lives in Europe.

It is called "painter's mussel" because the shell was historically used as a conveniently sized and shaped receptacle for holding artist's paint.

Distribution and conservation status

* Not mentioned in IUCN Red List - Not Evaluated (NE) [2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. . Cited February 11 2007.]

Its native distribution is Europe.

* Czech Republic
** least concern (LC) [Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.] [Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm]
** Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
* Germany
** endangered ("gefährdet"). [Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2]
** Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
* Netherlands - ?
* Slovakia - not in red lists
* Sweden - not so common, scaterred occurrence [ [http://www.nrm.se/researchandcollections/zoology/invertebratezoology/factsoninvertebrates/thelargefreshwatermussels/paintersmussel.4.5fdc727f10d795b1c6e800010780.html Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet ] ]
* British Isles - mostly in England

Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.

References

External links

* http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id2993
* http://clade.acnatsci.org/mussel/m/mom/archive/2005/05-11.html
* [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/List_AquireAll.jsp?Species=234&Effect= Pesticides Database - Chemical Toxicity Studies]


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