Unio pictorum

Painter's mussel
	Left valve of a brown shell
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Unionida
Family:	Unionidae
Genus:	Unio
Species:	U. pictorum
Binomial name
	Unio pictorum; (Linnaeus, 1758)
	Distribution of Unio pictorum in Europe.

Internal view of both valves

Unio pictorum is moving on the muddy bottom of a freshwater lake. Russia, the Southern Urals.

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.

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.

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

Right valve
Left valve

Distribution

The native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia (Russia).^[1]

Croatia
Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,^[2] least concern (LC);^[3]^[4] Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
Slovakia^[2] - not in red lists
Estonia – frequent.
Germany
- endangered (gefährdet)^[5]
- Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
Netherlands - Common (algemeen)^[6]^[7]
Russia
Sweden - not so common, scattered occurrence^[8]
British Isles - mostly in England

Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.

References

^ ^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.
^ ^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

Media related to Unio pictorum at Wikimedia Commons
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[iucn_status_19_November_2021-1] 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.

[Horsák_2010-2] (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] "Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic".

[5] (in German) Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2

[6] "Schildersmossel - Unio pictorum".

[7] "Natuurinformatie - Vragen".

[8] Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

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Unio pictorum

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