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Painter's Mussel

Unio pictorum

Classification

Family
Unionidae

Unio is a genus of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. They are found throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with some species introduced to East Asia. Fossil species are also known from the Jurassic of North America.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1,626Switzerland · 808Germany · 553France · 141United Kingdom · 103Luxembourg · 33Belgium · 18