#4707 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Chinese Pond Mussel
🇳🇱 Chinese Zwanenmossel ·Sinanodonta woodiana
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- 1. © Valerio Gennari · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 6. © Michel Frisch · CC BY 4.0
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- 9. © gyng · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Chinese pond mussel , Eastern Asiatic freshwater clam or swan-mussel , scientific name Sinanodonta (Anodonta) woodiana , is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.
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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,154 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Isaac Lea in 1834 (192 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Chinese Pond Mussel
- Nederlands
- Chinese Zwanenmossel
- scientific name
- Sinanodonta woodiana
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Unionida
- family
- Unionidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 1,638
- sightings worldwide
- 2,154
- GBIF records in NL
- 95
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1834 by Isaac Lea
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Unionidae
#4621 📷 9Swollen River-mussel
🇳🇱 Bolle stroommossel
Unio tumidus
LC 👀 73 in NL
#4631 📷 8Painter's Mussel
🇳🇱 Schildersmossel
Unio pictorum
LC 👀 54 in NL
#4636 📷 10Swan Mussel
🇳🇱 Zwanenmossel
Anodonta cygnea
LC 👀 46 in NL
#4642 📷 10Duck Mussel
🇳🇱 Vijvermossel
Anodonta anatina
LC 👀 41 in NL
#4822 📷 8Giant Floater
Pyganodon grandis
LC 🌍 9.9k seen
#4823 📷 7Eastern Elliptio
Elliptio complanata
LC 🌍 9.6k seen
#4837 📷 10Fatmucket
Lampsilis siliquoidea
LC 🌍 7.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 151728, Wikidata Q697419, GBIF 4559541, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.