Duck mussel

The duck mussel (Anodonta anatina) is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Duck mussel
A live individual of the duck mussel, Anodonta anatina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Genus: Anodonta
Species:
A. anatina
Binomial name
Anodonta anatina
Subspecies
  • A. a. anatina (L., 1758)
  • A. a. attenuata Held, 1836
  • A. a. radiata (O.F.Müller, 1774)
Synonyms

Anodonta piscinalis Nilsson, 1823

Description

See Animalbase below (external link).

Distribution

The native distribution of this species is European-Siberian.

References

  1. Lopes-Lima, M. (2014). "Anodonta anatina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  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.
  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), Environmental Protection Agency. "404 page - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA" (PDF). www.epa.ie.
  6. "Anemoon > Flora en Fauna > Soorteninformatie". www.anemoon.org.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. Retrieved 2007-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) cited 16 February 2007
  8. Araujo et al., 2009.
  9. IUCN list of threatened species: Anodonta anatina
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