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]
| Painter's mussel | |
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| Left valve of a brown shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Unionida |
| Family: | Unionidae |
| Genus: | Unio |
| Species: | U. pictorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Unio pictorum | |
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| Distribution of Unio pictorum in Europe. | |
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.
- Subspecies
- † Unio pictorum alexeevi Mangikian, 1929
- † Unio pictorum pseudorumanus Chepalyga, 1967
- † Unio pictorum rumanoides Chepalyga, 1967
Synonyms
edit- Limnium pictorum(Linnaeus, 1758) ·
- Lymnium pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) ·
- Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791 (a junior synonym)
- Mya ovalis Philipsson, 1788 (a junior synonym)
- Mya pictorum Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
- Unio (Unio) kalmykorum Bogachev, 1924 (junior subjective synonym)
- Unio (Unio) limosus Nilsson, 1822 (a junior synonym)
- Unio (Unio) pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758) ·
- Unio (Unio) protractus Lindholm, 1932 (junior subjective synonym)
- Unio (Unio) rostrata Lamarck, 1819 (a junior synonym)
- Unio annulatus Kobelt, 1911 (a junior synonym)
- Unio ascanius Kobelt, 1912 (junior synonym)
- Unio deshayesii Michaud, 1831 (a junior synonym)
- Unio gaudioni Drouët, 1881 (junior synonym)
- Unio gentilis F. Haas, 1911junior subjective synonym
- Unio inflatus Studer, 1820 (a junior synonym)
- Unio kalmykorum Bogachev, 1924 (a junior synonym)
- Unio latirostris Küster, 1853 (a junior synonym)
- Unio limosus Nilsson, 1822 (a junior synonym)
- Unio limosus behningi Starobogatov & Pirogov, 1970 (a junior synonym)
- Unio lindholmi Zhadin, 1938 (a junior synonym)
- Unio longirostris Rossmässler, 1836 ·
- Unio longirostris schrenckianus Clessin, 1880 (a junior synonym)
- Unio maltzani Küster, 1854 (a junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum okensis Zhadin, 1938 (a junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum var. grandis Rossmässler, 1842 (a junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum var. okae Kobelt, 1911 (invalid; junior homonym of Unio...)
- Unio pictorum var. okensis Zhadin, 1938 (junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum var. pachyodon H. Jordan, 1879 junior subjective synonym
- Unio pictorum var. pygmaeus Zhadin, 1938 (a junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum var. tumens de Joannis, 1859 (a junior synonym)
- Unio pictorum var. vinceleus de Joannis, 1859 (a junior synonym)
- Unio platyrhynchus Rossmässler, 1835 (a junior synonym)
- Unio ponderosus Rossmässler, 1842 (a junior synonym)
- Unio praeposterus Küster, 1853 (a junior synonym)
- Unio protractus Lindholm, 1932 ·
- † Unio protractus subpictorum Lindholm, 1932 (subjective synonym)
- Unio quinqueannulatus Küster, 1854 (junior synonym)
- Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819 ·
- Unio rostratus Lamarck, 1819 (wrong gender agreement)
- Unio schrenkianus Clessin, 1880 (a junior synonym)
- Unio voltzii Kobelt, 1911 (invalid; not Koch & Dunker, 1837)
Distribution
editThe native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia (Russia).[1]
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[3] least concern (LC);[4][5] Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
- Slovakia[3] - not in red lists
- Estonia – frequent.
- Germany
- endangered (gefährdet)[6]
- Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Netherlands - Common (algemeen)[7][8]
- Serbia
- Russia
- Sweden - not so common, scattered occurrence[9]
- British Isles - mostly in England
Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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".
- ^ (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
- ^ "Schildersmossel - Unio pictorum".
- ^ "Natuurinformatie - Vragen".
- ^ Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
External links
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Media related to Unio pictorum at Wikimedia Commons- biolib.cz
- clade.acnatsci.org
Right and left valve of the same specimen:
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Unio pictorum deshayesii
Right valve -
Unio pictorum deshayesii
Left valve
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Unio pictorum latirostris
Right valve -
Unio pictorum latirostris
Left valve
