Unio pictorum
{{Short description|Species of bivalve}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Painter's mussel
| image = Unio pictorum 03.jpg
| image_caption = Left valve of a brown shell
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Unio
| species = pictorum
| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
| range_map = Unio-pictorum-map-eur-nm-moll.jpg
| range_map_caption = Distribution of Unio pictorum in Europe.
}}
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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. 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
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
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- 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)
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Distribution
The native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia (Russia).
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia,{{in lang|cs}} 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. [http://mollusca.sav.sk/pdf/9/Suppl-1-v2.pdf PDF]. least concern (LC);Juřičková L., Horsák M. & Beran L., 2001: Check-list of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 65: 25-40.{{cite web|url=http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm|title=Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic|publisher=}} Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. (and No. 175/2006 Sb.) - Critically Threatened species.
- Slovakia - not in red lists
- Estonia – frequent.
- Germany
- endangered (gefährdet){{in lang|de}} Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, {{ISBN|3-923376-02-2}}
- Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Netherlands - Common (algemeen){{cite web|url=http://waarneming.nl/soort/info/18790|title=Schildersmossel - Unio pictorum|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.natuurinformatie.nl/ecomare.devleet/natuurdatabase.nl/i001330.html|title=Natuurinformatie - Vragen|publisher=}}
- Serbia
- Russia
- Sweden - not so common, scattered occurrence[http://www.nrm.se/researchandcollections/zoology/invertebratezoology/factsoninvertebrates/thelargefreshwatermussels/paintersmussel.4.5fdc727f10d795b1c6e800010780.html Painter's mussel - Naturhistoriska riksmuseet]
- British Isles - mostly in England
Biotope: water bodies and slower streams.
References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Unio pictorum}}
- [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id2993 biolib.cz]
- [http://clade.acnatsci.org/mussel/m/mom/archive/2005/05-11.html clade.acnatsci.org]
Right and left valve of the same specimen:
Unio pictorum 01.jpg|Unio pictorum deshayesii
Right valve
Unio pictorum 02.jpg|Unio pictorum deshayesii
Left valve
Unio pictorum 05.jpg|Unio pictorum latirostris
Right valve
Unio pictorum 06.jpg|Unio pictorum latirostris
Left valve
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Category:Molluscs described in 1758
Category:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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