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Freshwater Pearly Mussel
Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  order Unionida »  family Margaritiferidae »  genus Margaritifera »  subgenus Margaritifera

Scientific synonyms

Margaritana margaritifera
Avicula margaritifera

Other names

= Eastern Pearlshell
= Freshwater Pearl Mussel

Endangered EN

Images

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: David Hansa

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: David Hansa

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: David Hansa

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

Margaritifera margaritifera - Freshwater Pearly Mussel

Author: Lukáš Jurek

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Included taxa

Number of records: 3

subspecies Margaritifera margaritifera durrovensis Phillips, 1928
subspecies Margaritifera margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)
subspecies Margaritifera margaritifera parvula (Haas, 1908)

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [12799]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Margaritifera margaritifera Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
EN de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea 2.4 [http://www.faunaeur.org] [as Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Data retrieved on: 9 March 2012
CZ Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Margaritifera margaritifera (LINNÉ, 1758)]
Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013
CZ EN Farkač J., Král D. & Škorpík M. (eds.) (2005): Červený seznam ohrožených druhů České republiky - Bezobratlí, Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR, Praha, 760 pp. [as Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)]
CZ Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010): Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky, Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1–37. [as Margaritifera margaritifera (Linné, 1758)]
EN Graf D.L., Cummings K.S. (2007): Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida), Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73: 291–314 [as Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Data retrieved on: 15 April 2021

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Explanations

species extinct in area described by check-list