Sinanodonta woodiana
Encyclopedia
The Chinese pond mussel, Eastern Asiatic freshwater clam or swan-mussel, scientific name Sinanodonta woodiana, is a species
of freshwater mussel, an aquatic
bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae
, the river mussels.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of freshwater mussel, an aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae
Unionidae
Unionidae is a family of freshwater mussels, the largest in the order Unionoida, the bivalve mollusks sometimes known as river mussels, naiads, or simply as unionids.The range of distribution for this family is world-wide...
, the river mussels.
Distribution
- indigenous in Eastern Asia
- non-indigenous in Europe:
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic - non-indigenous in Bohemia since 2001, non-indigenous in Moravia since 1996; not evaluated (NE)
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Italy
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Ukraine
- non-indigenous in some Indonesian islands
- non-indigenous in America:
- Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
- Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
- Costa Rica