Biology:Euglesa nitida

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Short description: Species of bivalve

Euglesa nitida
Drawing of the left valve external view of Euglesa nitida

Secure (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Sphaeriida
Family: Sphaeriidae
Genus: Euglesa
Species:
E. nitida
Binomial name
Euglesa nitida
(Jenyns, 1832)

Euglesa nitida, the shining pea clam, is a species of small freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae, the pea clams and fingernail clams.

Description

Distribution

  • Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,[3] - least concern (LC)[4]
  • Slovakia[3]
  • Germany – distributed in whole Germany, endangered (gefährdet) in Bavaria and Arten der Vorwarnliste in Brandenburg.[5]
  • Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden[6]
  • Great Britain and Ireland[7]

References

  1. Killeen, I.; Van Damme, D.; Mackie, G.; Seddon, M.B. (2017). "Pisidium nitidum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T155659A58616181.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155659/58616181. Retrieved 10 February 2026. 
  2. NatureServe. "Pisidium nitidum" (in en). Arlington, Virginia. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.121025/. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  6. Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A.; Knudsen, J.; Koli, L.; von Proschwitz, T.; Valovirta, I. (1989), "Geographical distribution of the small mussels (Sphaeriidae) in North Europe (Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)", Annales Zoologici Fennici 26 (2): 73–101, http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anzf26/anz26-073-101.pdf 
  7. Roy Anderson, 2005 An annotated list of the non-marine molluscs of Britain and Ireland Journal of Conchology, 38 (6): 607–637, (published 2005) [1].

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