Notes on the thick-shelled river mussel  Unio crassus  Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Stradomka (southern Poland), a tributary of the Raba river

Maciej Bonk

doi:10.12657/folmal.024.025

4/2016 vol. 24

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Notes on the thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Stradomka (southern Poland), a tributary of the Raba river

Maciej Bonk ^1,2

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Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland

Institute of Zoology, Department of Entomology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Submission date: 2016-07-18

Final revision date: 2016-10-10

Acceptance date: 2016-10-21

Publication date: 2016-12-05

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Maciej Bonk

Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. A. Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Cracow, Poland
Institute of Zoology, Department of Entomology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Cracow, Poland

Folia Malacol. 2016;24(4):289-293

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.024.025

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KEYWORDS

thick-shelled river mussel

Unio crassus

Stradomka

Raba tributary

ABSTRACT

This contribution presents new data on the occurrence of the thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus in the Stradomka river and its tributaries (S. Poland), not surveyed earlier. Live specimens and empty shells were found in 14 localities, mostly in the Stradomka river.

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