Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Palaeoheterodonta > Order Unionida > Superfamily Unionoidea > Family Unionidae > Subfamily Unioninae > Tribe Unionini > Genus Unio

Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Unio*	Philipsson, 1788	accepted genus name

Children

Unio tumidus borysthenensis Kobelt, 1879
Unio tumidus tumidus Philipson, 1788

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: bolle stroommossel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: swollen river mussel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Aufgeblasene Flussmuschel; Große Flussmuschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: spetsig målarmussla

Literature

original description	Retzius A.J. (1788). Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. 4+23 pp. Lund.
additional source	Ortmann, A. E. (1914). Studies in najades [continued]. The Nautilus. 28(3): 28-34.
additional source	Klishko, O.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Froufe, E.; Bogan, A.; Vasiliev, L.; Yanovich, L. (2017). Taxonomic reassessment of the freshwater mussel genus Unio (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Russia and Ukraine based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa. 4286(1): 93-112.
additional source	Martens, E. von. (1881). Vorlegung einiger erwachsener Stücke von Unio tumidus aus dem Stobber bei Bukow. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1881: 94 [21 June].
additional source	Martens, E. von. (1887). Vorlegung eines lebenden Exemplares von Unio tumidus. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1887: 105-106 [19 July].
additional source	Lopes-Lima, M.; Emre Gürlek, M.; Kebapçı, Ü.; Şereflişan, H.; Yanık, T.; Mirzajani, A.; Neubert, E.; Prié, V.; Teixeira, A.; Gomes-dos-Santos, A.; Barros-García, D.; Bolotov, I. N.; Kondakov, A. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Tomilova, A. A.; Özcan, T.; Altun, A.; Gonçalves, D. V.; Bogan, A. E.; Froufe, E. (2021). Diversity, biogeography, evolutionary relationships, and conservation of Eastern Mediterranean freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 163: 107261.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:182708

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Unio tumidus Philipsson, 1788. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/fde5636b-90d9-4e71-b9d0-8462cfb0479c