Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Marković, Vanja, Gojšina, Vukašin, Novaković, Boris, Božanić, Milenka, Stojanović, Katarina, Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara & Živić, Ivana, 2021, The freshwater molluscs of Serbia: Annotated checklist with remarks on distribution and protection status, Zootaxa 5003 (1), pp. 1-64 : 33-34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5003.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8C98CC0B-18AF-418A-A794-AA3CA9CB7409

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5120149

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CDA653-FFC9-FFC1-FF41-1AC6FD0FDDA6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)
status

 

67. Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Findings in Serbia.

Corbicula fluminea: Zorić et al. (2010, 2011 , 2020), Tomović et al. (2010b, 2012, 2014); Raković (2015), Paunović et al. (2005, 2007 a, 2007 b, 2008, 2010, 2012 a, 2015); Marković et al. (2011, 2015); Vranković et al. (2010); Martinović-Vitanović et al. (2013); Lucić et al. (2015); Vranković (2015).

Common name. Golden freshwater clam

Morphology. Medium-sized bivalves. Shell is tumid and solid with a rounded triangular outline shape. The typical dimensions are 20–36 mm in length, 20–33 mm in height, and 14–22 mm in depth. For more details see Welter-Schultes (2012: 15, figure at the bottom of the page).

Distribution and ecology. This species is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, the Malaysian Archipelago, the Philippines, New Guinea and Eastern Australia ( Morton 1986), but has become widely dispersed into Europe and North America. It has similar habitat requirements as C. fluminalis . It is quite common in Serbia and could be found in large, potamon type rivers. the Danube, Tisza, Sava and Velika Morava Rivers, in reservoirs and canals.

Other remarks. Invasive species ranked as 82 nd, out of 149 species, in the “List of the worst alien species for Europe” ( Nentwig et al. 2018). A total of 68 nominal species are known as synonyms ( Graf & Cummings 2021). It has been assessed as LC on the IUCN Red List ( Aldridge et al. 2012).

Order Sphaeriida Lemer, Bieler & Giribet, 2019

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Veneroida

Family

Cyrenidae

Genus

Corbicula

Loc

Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Marković, Vanja, Gojšina, Vukašin, Novaković, Boris, Božanić, Milenka, Stojanović, Katarina, Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara & Živić, Ivana 2021
2021
Loc

Corbicula fluminea: Zorić et al. (2010 , 2011

Zoric 2010
2010
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