MolluscaBase - Unio Philipsson, 1788

NARMS taxon details

Unio Philipsson, 1788

AphiaID

182707 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182707)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Unionini Rafinesque, 1820

Original name

Unio Philipsson, 1788

Direct children (2)

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Species Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam pr�side D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius M�nter 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): 16 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Unio Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=182707 on 2025-07-18

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Unio Philipsson, 1788. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=182707 on 2025-07-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-09-29 07:51:57Z

created

Claus, Simon

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2008-08-05 07:36:21Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2012-07-02 14:26:34Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2016-11-10 16:47:38Z

changed

Bieler, R�diger

2017-11-13 22:17:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-06-20 05:01:28Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-02-01 19:12:07Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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original description Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam pr�side D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius M�nter 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): 16 [details]

additional source Frierson, L. S. (1904). Notes on the structure of the shells of Unio. The Nautilus. 17(9): 98-99., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1726521 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Unio)
To Genbank

Unreviewed

Unio pictorum

Image from typetaxon