Pisidium supinum
Pisidium supinum is a species of minute freshwater clam, a pea clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae (the fingernail clams and pea clams.)
| Pisidium supinum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Sphaeriida |
| Family: | Sphaeriidae |
| Genus: | Pisidium |
| Species: | P. supinum |
| Binomial name | |
| Pisidium supinum A. Schmidt, 1851 | |
The shell of this species is 3 to 5 mm in size, and is roughly triangular in shape.
Distribution
Its native distribution is Palearctic.
- Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] vulnerable (VU)[3]
- Germany – endangered (gefährdet)[4]
- Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland (endangered[5]), Norway and Sweden (not recorded in Faroes, Iceland)[6]
References
- Prie, V. (2011). "Pisidium supinum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- (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.
- Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
- Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- "Threatened and Near Threatened molluscs". www.environment.fi. Finnish Environment Institute. 2001. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A.; Knudsen, J.; Koli, L.; von Proschwitz, T. & Valovirta, I. (1989), "Geographical distribution of the small mussels (Sphaeriidae) in North Europe (Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)" (PDF), Annales Zoologici Fennici, 26 (2): 73–101
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