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Painter's Mussel
''Unio pictorum'', the painter's mussel, is a species of medium-sized freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234102 on 2023-01-09 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. ;Subspecies: * † ''Unio pictorum alexeevi'' Mangikian, 1929 * † ''Unio pictorum pseudorumanus'' Chepalyga, 1967 * † ''Unio pictorum rumanoides'' Chepalyga, 1967 Synonyms * L''imnium pictorum''(Linnaeus, 1758) · * ''Lymnium pictorum'' (Linnaeus, 1758) · * ''Mya nodosa'' Gmelin, 1791 (a junior synonym) * ''Mya ovalis'' Philipsson, 1788 (a junior synonym) * ''Mya pictorum'' Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) * ''Unio (Unio) kal ...
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Valve (mollusc)
A valve is each articulating part of the shell of a Mollusca, mollusc or another multi-shelled animal such as Brachiopod, brachiopods and some Crustacean, crustaceans. Each part is known as a valve or in the case of Chiton, chitons, a "plate". Members of two Class (biology), classes of molluscs, the Bivalvia (clams) and the Polyplacophora (chitons), have valves. Species within one family of very unusual small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine opisthobranch gastropods in the family Juliidae, also have two articulating shells or valves, which resemble those of a bivalve. This exceptional family is commonly known as the bivalved gastropods. Gastropods in general are sometimes called "univalves", because in those that have a shell, the shell is usually in one part. Chitons The valves of chitons are eight dorsum (biology), dorsal, wiktionary:articulated, articulated shell plates, which are frequently coloured and sculpted. After death the girdle that holds the plates together disin ...
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Siberia
Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states since the lengthy conquest of Siberia, which began with the fall of the Khanate of Sibir in 1582 and concluded with the annexation of Chukotka in 1778. Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over , but home to roughly a quarter of Russia's population. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Omsk are the largest cities in the area. Because Siberia is a geographic and historic concept and not a political entity, there is no single precise definition of its territorial borders. Traditionally, Siberia spans the entire expanse of land from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, with the Ural River usually forming the southernmost portion of its western boundary, and includes most of the drainage basin of the Arctic Ocean. I ...
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Freshwater Bivalves
Freshwater bivalves are molluscs of the order Bivalvia that inhabit freshwater ecosystems. They are one of the two main groups of freshwater molluscs, along with freshwater snails. The majority of bivalve molluscs are saltwater species that live in the marine habitats, but a number of families have evolved to live in fresh water (and in some cases, also in brackish water). These belong to two different evolutionary lineages, i.e. freshwater mussels and freshwater clams, and the two groups are not closely related. Freshwater bivalves have a simple morphology that varies among taxa, and are distributed around most regions of the world. Freshwater bivalve species vary greatly in size. Some pea clams (genus ''Pisidium'') have an adult size of only . In contrast, one of the largest species of freshwater bivalves is the swan mussel from the family Unionidae; it can grow to a length of , and usually lives in lakes or slow-flowing rivers. Freshwater pearl mussels are economically impo ...
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Molluscs Of Europe
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The number of additional fossil species is estimated between 60,000 and 100,000, and the proportion of undescribed species is very high. Many taxa remain poorly studied. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms. They are highly diverse, not just in size and anatomical structure, but also in behaviour and habitat, as numerous groups are freshwater and even terrestrial species. The phylum is typically divided into 7 or 8 taxonomic classes, of which two are entirely extinct. Cephalopod molluscs, such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses, are among the most neurologically advanced of all invertebrates—and either the giant squid or the colossal squid is the largest known extant invertebrate sp ...
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Unio (bivalve)
''Unio'' is a genus of medium-sized freshwater mussels, Aquatic animal, aquatic bivalve mollusc, mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. They are found throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with some species introduced to East Asia. Fossil species are also known from the Jurassic of North America. ''Unio'' is the Type (zoology), type genus of the family (biology), family Unionidae. Species Species in the genus ''Unio'' include: *''Unio abyssinicus'' Martens, 1866 *''Unio bruguierianus'' Bourguignat, 1853 *''Unio caffer'' Krauss, 1848 *''Unio cariei'' – extinctBouchet, P. & von Cosel, R. 1996.Unio cariei 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007. (no longer recognised) *''Unio courtillieri'' Hattemann, 1859 *''Unio crassus'' Philipsson, 1788 (Thick shelled river mussel) - near threatened *''Unio damascensis'' Lea, 1863 *''Unio delicatus'' Lea, 1863 *''Unio delphinus'' Spengler, 1793 *''Unio dembeae'' Reeve, 1865 *''Unio durieui ...
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British Isles
The British Isles are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner Hebrides, Inner and Outer Hebrides, Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands. They have a total area of and a combined population of almost 72 million, and include two sovereign states, the Republic of Ireland (which covers roughly five-sixths of Ireland), and the United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Channel Islands, off the north coast of France, are normally taken to be part of the British Isles, even though geographically they do not form part of the archipelago. Under the UK Interpretation Act 1978, the Channel Islands are clarified as forming part of the British Islands, not to be confused with the British Isles. The oldest rocks are 2.7 billion years old and are ...
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Bundesartenschutzverordnung
The Federal Species Protection Regulations, first adopted on 19 December 1986, is a set of federal regulations in Germany. These regulations protect wild plants and animals. They are the implementing rules promulgated by the government to give force to the Federal Nature Conservation Act which passed on 1 January 1977. With the passage of new legislation, it became necessary to update the regulations. The current version of these laws dates from 16 February 2005. Annex 1 of these regulations lists the protected plants and animals. The protected species should not be confused with the Red Lists of animal and plant species in danger of extinction Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and .... References Wildlife law Nature conservation in Germany Law of Germany 1986 in law ...
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List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Slovakia
Slovakia is a land-locked country, and therefore the molluscs of Slovakia are all land and freshwater species. There are 247 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: 1-37PDF species of Mollusca, molluscs living in the wild in Slovakia. In addition there are 9 gastropod species living only in greenhouses. There are a total of 219 species of Gastropoda, gastropods, which breaks down to 51 species of freshwater gastropods, and 168 species of land gastropods, plus 28 species of Bivalvia, bivalves living in the wild. There are 8 non-indigenous gastropod species (3 freshwater and 5 land species) and 3 species of bivalves in the wild in Slovakia. This is a total of 6 freshwater non-indigenous species of wild molluscs. ;Summary ta ...
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Least Concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. They do not qualify as threatened, near threatened, or (before 2001) conservation dependent. Species cannot be assigned the "Least Concern" category unless they have had their population status evaluated. That is, adequate information is needed to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction based on its distribution or population status. Evaluation Since 2001 the category has had the abbreviation "LC", following the IUCN 2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1). Before 2001 "least concern" was a subcategory of the " Lower Risk" category and assigned the code "LR/lc" or lc. Around 20% of least concern taxa (3261 of 15,636) in the IUCN database still use the code "LR/lc", which indicates they have not been re- ...
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Malacologica Bohemoslovaca
''Malacologica Bohemoslovaca'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of malacology. It was published by the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 2005. It is published by the Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University since 2021. The editor-in-chief is Lucie Juřičková (Charles University in Prague). Articles are published in Czech, Slovak or English, with an abstract in English. The journal is abstracted and indexed in The Zoological Record ''The Zoological Record'' (''ZR'') is an electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial register of scientific names in zoology. It was started as a print publication in 1864 by the Zoological Society of London, .... References External links * Malacology journals Multilingual journals Academic journals established in 2002 Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals Academic journals published by learned and professional societies ...
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