Corbicula fluminalis

Wesselingh, Frank, Poorten, Jan Johan ter, Kijashko, Pavel, Albrecht, Christian, Anistratenko, Olga Yu, Frolov, Pavel, Gándara, Alberto Martinez, Gittenberger, Arjan, Gogaladze, Aleksandre, Mikhail Karpinsky, Popa, Luis, Sands, Arthur F, Vandendorpe, Justine & Wilke, Thomas, 2019, Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region - an expert opinion list, ZooKeys 827, pp. 31-124 : 53-54

Corbicula fluminalis ( Müller, 1774)

*1774 Tellina fluminalis Müller: 205-206.

1952 Corbicula fluminalis ( Müller, 1774). - Zhadin: 317, fig. 283.

2012 Corbicula fluminalis ( Müller, 1774). - Welter-Schultes: 15, unnumbered text figures.

2016 Corbicula fluminalis (O.F. Müller, 1774). - Nabozhenko and Nabozhenko: 62, text fig. 1(3, 4).

2016 Corbicula fluminalis (O.F. Müller, 1774). - Vinarski and Kantor: 80.

Status. Native/Invasive Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Euphrates River.

Distribution. Native to large parts of western Asia (including southern Caspian river systems) and northern Africa, introduced in 1939 to southern North America and in 1980 from there to Europe ( Seddon and Van Damme 2016). The species has been recently recorded from the Caspian Dagestan coast ( Nabozhenko and Nabozhenko 2016).

Remarks. This species has been native to south Caspian rivers including the Kura river system ( Zhadin 1952) and has expanded several times in the Late Pleistocene into the Caspian Sea, where in time intervals it survived in proximal lacustrine habitats. A recent introduction and expansion of the species has been recorded in the Kizlyarsky Gulf in Dagestan ( Nabozhenko and Nabozhenko 2016) and the strong increase in fresh material found around the gulf in subsequent years, including whole specimens (AS Gasanova, Makhachkala, pers. comm.) suggests the species may have established there.

Conservation status. Least Concern ( Seddon and Van Damme 2016).