#4647 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Quagga Mussel
🇳🇱 Quaggamossel ·Dreissena bugensis
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what is it?
The quagga mussel , scientific name Dreissena bugensis , and also known as Dreissena rostriformis bugensis , is a species (or subspecies) of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Dreissenidae.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,413 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nicolai Andrusov in 1897 (129 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Quagga Mussel
- Nederlands
- Quaggamossel
- scientific name
- Dreissena bugensis
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Myida
- family
- Dreissenidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 688
- sightings worldwide
- 3,413
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,436
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1897 by Nicolai Andrusov
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Dreissenidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 151570, Wikidata Q2121978, GBIF 2287073, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.