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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | ... | Unionidae | Unioninae | Unionini | Unio

species Unio carneus Küster, 1854: specimens
     3 available nominal species synonyms

Recent Taxonomic Opinions

Crassiana nana carnea — Kantor et al. (2010)
Unio crassus carneus — Fauna Europaea (2012), Lopes-Lima et al. (2017)
Unio crassus — IUCN (2014), Araujo et al. (2018)
Unio (Crassiana) crassus — Vinarski & Kantor (2016)
Unio carneus — Lyubas et al. (2022), Lopes-Lima et al. (2024), Hou et al. (2024)

Range

Drin River in eastern Mediterranean Europe.

Map of Georeferenced Specimens

There are no specimens for this species in the MUSSELpdb.

Georeferenced Genbank Vouchers

Albania

CIIMAR_BIV6552. (COI) Gadjer River (Buna Basin), Albania (41.905293, 19.581752)

CIIMAR_BIV6562. (COI) Gadjer River (Buna Basin), Albania (41.905293, 19.581752)

CIIMAR_BIV6640. (COI) Gadjer River (Buna Basin), Albania (41.905293, 19.581752)

CIIMAR_BIV6641. (COI) Gadjer River (Buna Basin), Albania (41.905293, 19.581752)

CIIMAR_BIV6642. (COI) Gadjer River (Buna Basin), Albania (41.905293, 19.581752)

CIIMAR_BIV6434. (COI, mtGenome, SRA) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.901298, 20.695883)

CIIMAR_BIV6435. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.901298, 20.695883)

CIIMAR_BIV6436. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.901298, 20.695883)

CIIMAR_BIV6437. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.901298, 20.695883)

CIIMAR_BIV6449. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.901298, 20.695883)

CIIMAR_BIV6430. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.965954, 20.644058)

CIIMAR_BIV6431. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.965954, 20.644058)

CIIMAR_BIV6432. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.965954, 20.644058)

CIIMAR_BIV6433. (COI) Lake Ohrid (Ohrid Basin), Albania (40.965954, 20.644058)

Montenegro

RMBH_biv_1204_1. (COI) Montenegro: Crnojevića River, Skadar Lake Basin (42.3545781, 19.027754)

RMBH_biv_1204_2. (COI) Montenegro: Crnojevića River, Skadar Lake Basin (42.3545781, 19.027754)

RMBH_biv_1204_3. (COI) Montenegro: Crnojevića River, Skadar Lake Basin (42.3545781, 19.027754)

RMBH_biv_1204_4. (COI) Montenegro: Crnojevića River, Skadar Lake Basin (42.3545781, 19.027754)

RMBH_biv_1201_1. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.4682814, 19.2579385)

RMBH_biv_1201_2. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.4682814, 19.2579385)

RMBH_biv_1201_3. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.4682814, 19.2579385)

RMBH_biv_1202_2. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.5113, 19.1987)

RMBH_biv_1202_3. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.5113, 19.1987)

RMBH_biv_1202_4. (COI) Montenegro: Zeta, Morača Basin (42.5113, 19.1987)

CIIMAR_BIV6606. (COI) Zeta River (Buna Basin), Montenegro (42.582577, 19.067916)

CIIMAR_BIV6607. (COI) Zeta River (Buna Basin), Montenegro (42.582577, 19.067916)

CIIMAR_BIV6612. (COI) Zeta River (Buna Basin), Montenegro (42.582577, 19.067916)

CIIMAR_BIV6644. (COI) Zeta River (Buna Basin), Montenegro (42.582577, 19.067916)

CIIMAR_BIV6647. (COI) Zeta River (Buna Basin), Montenegro (42.582577, 19.067916)