Unio pictorum
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.
;Subspecies:
- † Unio pictorum alexeevi Mangikian, 1929
- † Unio pictorum pseudorumanus Chepalyga, 1967
- † Unio pictorum rumanoides Chepalyga, 1967
Synonyms
- Limnium pictorum · Lymnium pictorum · Mya nodosa Gmelin, 1791 Mya ovalis Philipsson, 1788 Mya pictorum Linnaeus, 1758 Unio kalmykorum Bogachev, 1924 Unio limosus Nilsson, 1822 Unio pictorum · Unio protractus Lindholm, 1932 Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819 Unio annulatus Kobelt, 1911 Unio ascanius Kobelt, 1912 Unio deshayesii Michaud, 1831 Unio gaudioni Drouët, 1881 Unio gentilis F. Haas, 1911junior subjective synonymUnio inflatus Studer, 1820 Unio kalmykorum Bogachev, 1924 Unio latirostris Küster, 1853 Unio limosus Nilsson, 1822 Unio limosus behningi Starobogatov & Pirogov, 1970 Unio lindholmi Zhadin, 1938 Unio longirostris Rossmässler, 1836 · Unio longirostris schrenckianus Clessin, 1880 Unio maltzani Küster, 1854 Unio pictorum okensis Zhadin, 1938 Unio pictorum var. grandis Rossmässler, 1842 Unio pictorum var. okae Kobelt, 1911 Unio pictorum var. okensis Zhadin, 1938 Unio pictorum var. pachyodon H. Jordan, 1879 junior subjective synonymUnio pictorum var. pygmaeus Zhadin, 1938 Unio pictorum var. tumens de Joannis, 1859 Unio pictorum var. vinceleus de Joannis, 1859 Unio platyrhynchus Rossmässler, 1835 Unio ponderosus Rossmässler, 1842 Unio praeposterus Küster, 1853 Unio protractus Lindholm, 1932 ·
- † Unio protractus subpictorum Lindholm, 1932 Unio quinqueannulatus Küster, 1854 Unio rostrata Lamarck, 1819 · Unio rostratus Lamarck, 1819 Unio schrenkianus Clessin, 1880 Unio voltzii Kobelt, 1911
Distribution
The native distribution of this species is Europe and Siberia.- Croatia
- Czech Republic - in Bohemia, in Moravia, least concern ; Czech code, Decree for implementation, No. 395/1992 Sb. - Critically Threatened species.
- Slovakia - not in red lists
- Estonia – frequent.
- Germany
- * endangered
- * Listed as specially protected species in annex 1 in Bundesartenschutzverordnung.
- Netherlands - Common
- Serbia
- Russia
- Sweden - not so common, scattered occurrence
- British Isles - mostly in England