Pisidium personatum
| Pisidium personatum | |
|---|---|
| NE[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Heterodonta |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Suborder: | Sphaeriacea |
| Family: | Sphaeriidae |
| Genus: | Pisidium |
| Subgenus: | Euglesa |
| Species: | P. personatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Pisidium personatum Malm, 1855 | |
Pisidium personatum is a species of freshwater bivalve from the Family Sphaeriidae.
Description
The 2.5-3.5mm. shell is a characteristic round-regular oval shape. It has centrally placed low, rounded umbos . The surface (periostracum) is dull or silky with very fine irregular concentric striations. The colour is yellowish to greyish but it is invariably coated in a red-brown to dark brown deposit.
Distribution
Its native distribution is European-Siberian.
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] least concern (LC)[3]
- Germany - distributed in all of Germany but in 5 states in red list (Rote Liste BRD).[4]
- Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroes, Finland (near threatened[5]), Iceland, Norway and Sweden[6]
- Great Britain and Ireland [7]
References
- ↑ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Cited 17 May 2007.
- ↑ (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.
- ↑ Beran, L. (2002) Vodní měkkýši České Republiky - rozšíření a jeho změny, stanoviště, šíření, ohrožení a ochrana, červený seznam. Aquatic molluscs of the Czech Republic - distribution and its changes, habitats, dispersal, threat and protection, Red List. - Sborník přírodovědného klubu v Uherském Hradišti, Supplementum 10, 258 pp.
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ↑ Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A., Knudsen, J., Koli, L., von Proschwitz, T., and 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 Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - ↑ Roy Anderson ,2005 An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland Journal of Conchology, 38 (6): 607–637, (published 2005) .
External links
- Pisidium personatum at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, biology,status (threats), images
- Images at BOLD.
- Pisidium personatum illustrated in Danmarks Fauna (Georg Mandahl-Barth)
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