#4642 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Duck Mussel

🇳🇱 Vijvermossel ·Anodonta anatina

LCleast concern 🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Arūnas Juknevičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Thorsten Usée · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Sokolov Yuriy Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © esdena · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Amstelveen, Nederland:© Mathijs Zonneveld · CC BY 4.0
6. Lek River, Kinderdijk, South Holland, NL:© Morgan Raley · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 4285 Woudrichem, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. 7081 HK Gendringen, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Westerland, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Warmond, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The duck mussel , scientific name Anodonta anatina , is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

base stats

NL sightings 41iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,886iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).