Unio mancus

Species of bivalve

Unio mancus
A view of valves of Unio mancus
A live individual of Unio mancus
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionida
Family: Unionidae
Subfamily: Unioninae
Tribe: Unionini
Genus: Unio
Species:
U. mancus
Binomial name
Unio mancus
Lamarck, 1819
Synonyms
  • Unio elongatulus Pfeiffer, 1825
  • Unio emarginatus I. Lea, 1834 ·
  • Unio fascellinus Locard, 1882
  • Unio lagnisicus Bourguignat, 1882 ·
  • Unio manca Lamarck, 1819
  • Unio plebeius Drouët, 1888 (junior homonym of Unio compressus var. plebius C.B. Adams, 1842)
  • Unio suborbicularis Drouët, 1888
  • Unio valentinus Rossmässler, 1854 (junior synonym)
  • Unio voltzii var. ursannensis Kobelt, 1911 (junior synonym)

Unio mancus is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.[2][3]

Subspecies
  • Unio mancus mancus Lamarck, 1819
  • Unio mancus requienii Michaud, 1831
  • Unio mancus turtonii Payraudeau, 1826

Distribution

This species can be found from northeast Spain throughout the Mediterranean zone, northeast Africa and in the Middle East.[4] It is present in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria and Turkey.[1]

Description

Shells of Unio mancus usually reach a size of 55–65 millimetres (2.2–2.6 in), with a maximum of 10 centimetres (3.9 in).[5] These freshwater mussels have a dark brown or yellowish-green periostracum. The shells are equivalve, inequilateral and oval-shaped, with a rounded anterior margin and a truncated posterior margin. The inner is iridescent white.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Lopes-Lima , M.; Seddon, M.B. (2014). "Unio mancus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T22737A42466471. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T22737A42466471.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Catalogue of life
  3. ^ WoRMS
  4. ^ Encyclopedia of life
  5. ^ Annales de la Société Linneenne de Maine-et-Loire. – v1 (1853)
  6. ^ RAFAEL ARAUJO, IGNACIOGO MEZ AND ANNIE MACHORDOM THE IDENTITY AND BIOLOGY OF UNIO MANCUS LAMARCK, 1819 (=U. ELONGATULUS)(BIVALVIA:UNIONIDAE) IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
  • Rossmässler, E. A. (1854-1858). Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser-Mollusken Europa's, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung kritischer und noch nicht abgebildeter Arten. (1) 3

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  • Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 6(1): vi + 343 pp. Paris: published by the author.
  • Lea, I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19
  • Locard, A. (1882). Prodrome de malacologie française. [I]. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques terrestres, des eaux douces et des eaux saumâtres. vi + 462 pp. Lyon: Henri Georg.
  • Drouët, H. (1888). Unionidae nouveaux ou peu connus (5ème article). Journal de Conchyliologie. 36(1): 103-111
  • Kobelt, W. (1910-1911). In: Rossmässler, E.A., Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser-Mollusken mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten, (2) 17 (1/2): 1-24, pl. 451-460
  • Marrone F., Nardi G., Cianfanelli S., Govedič M., Barra S.A., Arculeo M. & Bodon M. (2019). Diversity and taxonomy of the genus Unio Philipsson in Italy, with the designation of a neotype for Unio elongatulus C. Pfeiffer (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Unionidae). Zootaxa. 4545(3): 339-374
  • Froufe, E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Riccardi, N.; Zaccara, S.; Vanetti, I.; Lajtner, J.; Teixeira, A.; Varandas, S.; Prié, V.; Zieritz, A.; Sousa, R.; Bogan, A. E. (2017). Lifting the curtain on the freshwater mussel diversity of the Italian Peninsula and Croatian Adriatic coast. Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(14): 3255-3274
Taxon identifiers
Unio mancus


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