Pisidium supinum

Pisidium supinum is a species of minute freshwater clam, a pea clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc in the family Sphaeriidae (the fingernail clams and pea clams.)

Pisidium supinum

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Sphaeriida
Family: Sphaeriidae
Genus: Pisidium
Species:
P. supinum
Binomial name
Pisidium supinum
A. Schmidt, 1851

The shell of this species is 3 to 5 mm in size, and is roughly triangular in shape.

Distribution

Its native distribution is Palearctic.

References
  1. Prie, V. (2011). "Pisidium supinum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. (in Czech) 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: 1-37. PDF.
  3. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
  4. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
  5. "Threatened and Near Threatened molluscs". www.environment.fi. Finnish Environment Institute. 2001. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  6. Kuiper, J. G. J.; Økland, K. A.; Knudsen, J.; Koli, L.; von Proschwitz, T. & Valovirta, I. (1989), "Geographical distribution of the small mussels (Sphaeriidae) in North Europe (Denmark, Faroes, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden)" (PDF), Annales Zoologici Fennici, 26 (2): 73–101
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