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Unio mancus
Species of bivalve
| Unio mancus
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| A view of valves of Unio mancus
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| A live individual of Unio mancus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Bivalvia
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| Order:
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Unionida
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| Family:
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Unionidae
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| Subfamily:
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Unioninae
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| Tribe:
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Unionini
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| Genus:
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Unio
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| Species:
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U. mancus
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| Binomial name
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Unio mancus
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| Synonyms
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- 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)
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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
- Rossmässler, E. A. (1854-1858). Iconographie der Land- & Süßwasser-Mollusken Europa's, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung kritischer und noch nicht abgebildeter Arten. (1) 3
External links
- 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
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