- Source: Pisidium moitessierianum
Pisidium moitessierianum is a species of minute freshwater clam. It is an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae.
Description
This species is the smallest of the pea clams or Pisidium species, and the smallest of any freshwater bivalve, at 1.5 – 2.5 mm adult size. The shell is long-oval and oblique wedge-shaped with prominent umbos which are slightly behind the midpoint. The umbos are demarcated by a shallow furrow. The surface (periostracum) is silky, with regular concentric striae.
Distribution
The species is native to Europe but has been introduced to northeastern North America.
Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia, - endangered (EN)
Slovakia
Germany – endangered (gefährdet)
Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (not in Faroes, Iceland)
Great Britain and Ireland
References
Notes
Sources
Zettler, M.L., Kuiper, J.G.J. 2002: Zur Verbreitung und Ökologie von Pisidium moitessierianum (Paladilhe 1866) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Nordostdeutschland (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 67: 9-26
External links
Pisidium moitessierianum at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, biology,status (threats), images
Pisidium moitessierianum illustrated in Danmarks Fauna (Georg Mandahl-Barth)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pisidium moitessierianum
- Pisidium
- List of introduced species
- List of non-marine molluscs of Lithuania
- List of non-marine molluscs of Ireland
- Stanford End Mill and River Loddon
- List of non-marine molluscs of Hungary
- List of non-marine molluscs of Ukraine
- List of non-marine molluscs of Sweden
- List of non-marine molluscs of Romania
