Sphaerium rivicola, the river orb mussel, is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Sphaeriida |
| Family: | Sphaeriidae |
| Genus: | Sphaerium |
| Species: | S. rivicola
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| Sphaerium rivicola (Lamarck, 1818)
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Distribution
editIts native distribution is European.
- Czech Republic – in Bohemia, in Moravia,[1] endangered[2]
- Germany – highly endangered (Stark gefährdet)[3]
References
edit- ^ (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
- ^ Red List of the molluscs (Mollusca) of the Czech Republic http://mollusca.sav.sk/malacology/redlist.htm
- ^ Glöer P. & Meier-Brook C. (2003) Süsswassermollusken. DJN, pp. 134, page 109, ISBN 3-923376-02-2
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