WoRMS taxon details
Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)
AphiaID: 181566
AphiaID: 181566
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Dreissenoidea (Superfamily) > Dreissenidae (Family) > Dreissena (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Dreissena van Beneden, 1835 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dreissena andrusovi Andrusov, 1897 Dreissena aralensis Andrusov, 1897 Dreissena arnouldi Locard, 1893 Dreissena bedoti Locard, 1893 Dreissena belgrandi Locard, 1893 Dreissena complanata Locard, 1893 Dreissena curta Locard, 1893 Dreissena eximia Locard, 1893 Dreissena küsteri Dunker, 1855 Dreissena locardi Locard, 1893 Dreissena lutetiana Locard, 1893 Dreissena magnifica Locard, 1893 Dreissena obtusecarinata Andrusov, 1897 Dreissena occidentalis Locard, 1893 Dreissena paradoxa Locard, 1893 Dreissena polymorpha var. lacustrina Boettger, 1913 Dreissena recta Locard, 1893 Dreissena servaini Locard, 1893 Dreissena sulcata Locard, 1893 Dreissena tumida Locard, 1893 Dreissena ventrosa Locard, 1893 Dreissena westerlundi Locard, 1893 Mytilus arca Kickx, 1834 Mytilus chemnitzii Férussac, 1835 Mytilus fluvis Gray, 1825 Mytilus hagenii Baer, 1826 Mytilus polymorphus Pallas, 1771 (original combination) Mytilus polymorphus fluviatilis Pallas, 1771 Mytilus volgensis Gray, 1825 Pinna fluviatilis Sander, 1780 Tichogonia chemnitzii Rossmässler, 1835 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research.
Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
[details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Dreissena polymorpha var. elata Andrusov, 1897 accepted as Dreissena elata Andrusov, 1897 Variety Dreissena polymorpha var. lacustrina Boettger, 1913 accepted as Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] Baltic sea [details] Belt Sea [details] Curonian Lagoon [details] East Gulf of Finland [details] Elbe [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North East Baltic Sea [details] North Sea [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (76 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (383 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1197 nucleotides; 140 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181566 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181566 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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