Swollen river mussel

Swollen river mussel
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionoida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Unio
Species:	U. tumidus
Binomial name
Unio tumidus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The swollen river mussel, scientific name Unio tumidus, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

Distribution

Its native distribution is European.

• Croatia
• Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,^[2] vulnerable (VU)^[3][4]
• Germany
  • Germany - high endangered (Stark gefährdet) ^[5]
  • Germany - Listed as a specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
• Latvia
• Lithuania - vulnerable
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Sweden^[6]
• British Isles - in England

References

1. Van Damme, D. (2011). "Unio tumidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
2. (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. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
5. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
6. Swollen river mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

External links

• Pesticides Database - Chemical Toxicity Studies