Biology:Pisidium supinum

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Short description: Species of bivalve

Pisidium supinum
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Sphaeriida
Family: Sphaeriidae
Genus: Pisidium
Species:
P. supinum
Binomial name
Pisidium supinum
A. Schmidt, 1851

Pisidium supinum is a species of minute freshwater clam, a pea clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae (the fingernail clams and pea clams.)

The shell of this species is 3 to 5 mm in size, and is roughly triangular in shape.

Distribution

Its native distribution is Palearctic.

  • Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,[2] vulnerable (VU)[3]
  • Germany – endangered (gefährdet)[4]
  • Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland (endangered[5]), Norway and Sweden (not recorded in Faroes, Iceland)[6]

References

  1. Prié, V. (2011). "Pisidium supinum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T155782A4841963. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T155782A4841963.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155782/4841963. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  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. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  4. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN:3-923376-02-2
  5. "Threatened and Near Threatened molluscs". www.environment.fi. Finnish Environment Institute. 2001. http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=8662&lan=en. 
  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 

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