North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

234102 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234102)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Unio Philipsson, 1788

Original name

Mya pictorum Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 671 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234102 on 2026-09-14

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=234102 on 2026-09-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 08:42:16Z

created

Martinez, Olga

2012-07-02 14:26:34Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-11-13 22:17:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-04-12 09:06:40Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 671 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Aksenova, O. V.; Aksenov, A. S.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Borovskoy, A. V.; Danilov, P. P.; Dvoryankin, G. A.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kabakov, M. B.; Klishko, O. K.; Kolosova, Y. S.; Lyubas, A. A.; Novoselov, A. P.; Palatov, D. M.; Savvinov, G. N.; Solomonov, N. M.; Spitsyn, V. M.; Sokolova, S. E.; Tomilova, A. A.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A. E.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Makhrov, A. A.; Vinarski, M. V. (2020). Integrative taxonomy, biogeography and conservation of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in Russia. Scientific Reports. 10(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59867-7 [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 Ortmann, A. E. (1914). Studies in najades [continued]. The Nautilus. 28(3): 28-34., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1750481
page(s): 32-33 [details]