Biology:Pisidium hibernicum

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Short description: Species of bivalve

Pisidium hibernicum
Pisidium hibernicum.svg
External view of valve of Pisidium hibernicum
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Sphaeriida
Family: Sphaeriidae
Genus: Pisidium
Species:
P. hibernicum
Binomial name
Pisidium hibernicum
Westerlund, 1894[1]

Pisidium hibernicum is a species of freshwater bivalve from the family Sphaeriidae.

Pisidium hibernicum and P. pulchellum in Danmarks Fauna

Description

The 2.5-3.5mm. shell is very inflated (convex) hence the common name Globular Pea Shell. The central umbos is prominent. The periostracum (surface) is silky glossy and sculptured by fine, regular striae. In colour it is greyish to brownish white often with scattered red-brown mineral deposits.

Distribution

Its native distribution is Palearctic.

  • Czech Republic – endangered (EN), endangered in Bohemia (EN), critically endangered in Moravia[2][3]
  • Slovakia[4][3]
  • Germany – endangered (gefährdet)[5]
  • Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden[6]
  • Great Britain and Ireland[7]

References

  1. Westerlund C. A. (1894). "Specilegium malacologicum. Neue Binnen-Conchylien aus der paläarktischen Region. V." Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 26 (9/10): 163-177, 190-205. Frankfurt am Main.
  2. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  3. 3.0 3.1 (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.
  4. Šteffek J. (2005). "First record of Pisidium hibernicum (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Slovakia". Biologia, Bratislava, 60: 136.
  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].

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3016876 entry