North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

AphiaID

182708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182708)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Unio Philipsson, 1788

Original name

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985, http://LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 17 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=182708 on 2026-09-02

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=182708 on 2026-09-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-09-29 07:51:57Z

created

Claus, Simon

2012-07-02 14:26:34Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-11-13 22:17:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-06-07 16:33:43Z

changed

Neubert, Eike

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original description Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 4+23 pp. Lund. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN581964985, http://LOG_0001&physid=PHYS_0004
page(s): 17 [details]

basis of record Zhadin V.I. (1938). Family Unionidae. Fauna of the USSR. Mollusks. 4(1): 1-170. (in Russian).
page(s): 80 [details] Available for editors

additional source Klishko, O.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A.; Vasiliev, L.; Yanovich, L. (2017). Taxonomic reassessment of the freshwater mussel genus Unio (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Russia and Ukraine based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa. 4286(1): 93-112., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.4 [details]

additional source Lopes-Lima, M.; Emre Gürlek, M.; Kebapçi, Ü.; Sereflisan, H.; Yanik, T.; Mirzajani, A.; Neubert, E.; Prié, V.; Teixeira, A.; Gomes-dos-Santos, A.; Barros-García, D.; Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Tomilova, A. A.; Özcan, T.; Altun, A.; Gonçalves, D. V.; Bogan, A. E.; Froufe, E. (2021). Diversity, biogeography, evolutionary relationships, and conservation of Eastern Mediterranean freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 163: 107261., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107261
page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors

additional source Martens, E. von. (1881). Vorlegung einiger erwachsener Stücke von Unio tumidus aus dem Stobber bei Bukow. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1881: 94 [21 June]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8788964 [details]

additional source Martens, E. von. (1887). Vorlegung eines lebenden Exemplares von Unio tumidus. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1887: 105-106 [19 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7795363 [details]

additional source Ortmann, A. E. (1914). Studies in najades [continued]. The Nautilus. 28(3): 28-34., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1750481
page(s): 33 [details]