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Thick Shelled River Mussel

Unio crassus

Classification

Family
Unionidae

Unio crassus, the thick shelled river mussel, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Taxonomy The species was split into two species, Unio crassus and Unio tumidiformis, in 2009. Various subspecies have been noted, but their validity is not always recognized.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 196Belgium · 163Luxembourg · 83Germany · 60FranceSwitzerland