Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Unionida > Unionidae > Unio > Unio pictorumUnio pictorum (Painter's Mussel)Synonyms: Limnium pictorum; Lymnium pictorum; Mya nodosa; Mya ovalis (heterotypic); Mya pictorum (homotypic); Potamida sicula; Unio actephilus; Unio annulatus; Unio arca; Unio ascanius; Unio balatonicus; Unio baletonicus; Unio barbozanus; Unio baudoni (pro parte); Unio berilloni; Unio brebissoni; Unio brindosopsis; Unio cancrorum; Unio castroi; Unio cavarellus; Unio charpyi; Unio corbini; Unio cristulatus; Unio danielis; Unio decollatus; Unio desfontainianus; Unio deshayesii; Unio dubreili; Unio eucallistus; Unio fagoti; Unio falsus; Unio gaudioni; Unio gentilis; Unio gestroianus; Unio graniger; Unio hauterivianus; Unio hopitali; Unio inflatus (heterotypic); Unio joannisi nigra; Unio jousseaumei; Unio kalmykorum; Unio latirostris; Unio lesumicus; Unio limosus; Unio limosus behningi; Unio limosus maxima; Unio limosus pumila; Unio lindholmi; Unio longirostris; Unio longirostris schrenckianus; Unio lugdunicus; Unio macropisthus; Unio maltzani; Unio mancus brindosianus; Unio michaudi; Unio michaudiana; Unio milneedwardsi; Unio moriscottei; Unio moussonianus; Unio mucidus (heterotypic); Unio mycrodactylus; Unio nodulosa; Unio octavius; Unio oeschrus; Unio pallens albina; Unio perroudi; Unio philippei; Unio philippii; Unio pictorum battonensis; Unio pictorum defectivus; Unio pictorum delphinus; Unio pictorum deshayesii; Unio pictorum flavescens; Unio pictorum grandis; Unio pictorum milleti; Unio pictorum mucidus; Unio pictorum okae; Unio pictorum okensis; Unio pictorum pachyodon; Unio pictorum pictorum; Unio pictorum platyrhynchoideus; Unio pictorum pygmaeus; Unio pictorum radiatus; Unio pictorum rostratus; Unio pictorum tisianus; Unio pictorum tumens; Unio pictorum var. grandis; Unio pictorum var. okae; Unio pictorum var. okensis; Unio pictorum var. pachyodon; Unio pictorum var. pygmaeus; Unio pictorum var. tumens; Unio pictorum var. vinceleus; Unio platyrhynchus; Unio platyrinchoideus; Unio ponderosus; Unio praeposterus; Unio proechistus; Unio proechus; Unio protractus; Unio protractus subpictorum; Unio quinqueannulatus; Unio renei; Unio requieni rostralis; Unio rhynchetinus; Unio rostrata; Unio rostratellus; Unio schrenkianus; Unio siliquiformis; Unio strigatus; Unio subbalatonicus; Unio tumens major; Unio voltzii The painter's mussel, scientific name Unio pictorum, 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. |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
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Polar Freshwaters |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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