The fingernail clams (Bivalvia: Veneroida: Sphaeriidae) of Morocco: Diversity, distribution and conservation status [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 In Morocco, many uncertainties surround the current diversity and distribution of the bivalve family Sphaeriidae. Such information, including taxonomy and conservation status, are vital for further studies to improve the knowledge of this family in ...
Hanane Rassam +4 more
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Phyllodistomum kupermani n. sp. from the European perch, Perca fluviatilis L. (Perciformes: Percidae), and redescription of Phyllodistomum macrocotyle (Lühe, 1909) with notes on the species diversity and host specificity in the European Phyllodistomum spp. (Trematoda: Gorgoderidae) [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background European species of the large genus Phyllodistomum Braun, 1899 had historically been erected based solely on morphological characters. Unfortunately, many of them are still poorly known and inadequately described.
Romualda Petkevičiūtė +4 more
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Fauna Europaea: Mollusca – Bivalvia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2015 Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus ...
Rafael Araujo, Yde de Jong
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Els Esferíids (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) dels Països Catalans [PDF]
Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, 1992 Als Països Catalans han estat trobades 13 especies de bivalves esfenids: Sphaerium (S.) corneum, S. (Musculium) lacustre, Pisidiurn (P.) amnicum, P. (Cyclocalyx) casertanum, P. (C.) personatum, P. (C.) obtusale, P. (C.) milium, P.
Altaba, Cristian R.
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First record of Pisidium subtruncatum Malm, 1855 (Bivalvia, Sphaeriidae) in an African cave [PDF]
Subterranean Biology, 2020 Studies on the bivalve family Sphaeriidae in North Africa are very limited at the surface water level, but even more for caves. During an expedition in 2019 to the Ait M’hamed cave (Oum Er Rabia Basin), six specimens of the genus Pisidium were collected.
Hanane Rassam +4 more
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Eupera troglobia sp. nov.: the first troglobitic bivalve from the Americas (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Sphaeriidae) [PDF]
Subterranean Biology, 2022 Eupera troglobia sp. nov. is the first fully described troglobitic bivalve discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world. The troglobitic designation is based on the lack of pigmentation, reduction in size and shell thickness,
Luiz Ricardo L. Simone +1 more
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Food utilisation in fingernail and pill clams [PDF]
Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2011 The contents of digestive systems in six freshwater bivalve species of the family Sphaeriidae were investigated. Microorganisms in the stomachs and intestines of the bivalves were the same as found suspended in the water, which implies none or very ...
Tereza Kořínková
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Changes of malacofauna in a small lowland river in eastern Poland
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae, 2020 In 2016, the species composition and the structure of the dominance of molluscs in the Muchawka River (left-bank tributary of the Liwiec River) were assessed.
Beata Jakubik +2 more
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BIVALVE MOLLUSCS (BIVALVIA: UNIONIDAE, DREISSENIDAE, SPHAERIIDAE) OF UDMURTIA
Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Biology. Earth Sciences, 2021 The results of the studies of fauna of bivalve molluscs of Udmurt Republic are summarized. The annotated check-list of species of bivalve molluscs of the waterbodies of Udmurtiya is presented. After examination of own collections and critical assessment of published data, 26 species of bivalves from 74 localities (14 rivers, 2 reservoirs, 8 pounds and ...
N.V. Kholmogorova +2 more
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New records of Pisidium tenuilineatum Stelfox, 1918 (Bivalvia, Sphaeriidae) from Slovakia [PDF]
Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, 2019 So far, Pisidium tenuilineatum has been reported from Slovakia only from four sites. Six new sites of this pea mussel have been found during the last twenty years in Slovakia in both small karstic watercourses (e.g. rivulets, brooks and small rivers) and
Luboš Beran, Tomáš Čejka
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