Sphaerium rivicola

Sphaerium rivicola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Sphaeriida
Family:	Sphaeriidae
Genus:	Sphaerium
Species:	S. rivicola
Binomial name
Sphaerium rivicola (Lamarck, 1818)

Sphaerium rivicola, the river orb mussel, is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.

Distribution

Its native distribution is European.

• Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,^[1] endangered^[2]
• Germany – highly endangered (Stark gefährdet)^[3]

References

1. (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.
2. Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
3. Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2