Freshwater mussels of Catalão, confluence of Solimões and Negro rivers, state of Amazonas, Brazil

By

Pimpão, Daniel Mansur
Rocha, Marcelo Salles
Fettuccia, Daniela De Castro

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2008-10-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

4

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

395--400

Subjects

Amazonas , Bivalvia , Brazil , Mollusca

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/4.4.395

 

Abstract

The present study provides a species list of freshwater mussels from Catalão, the meeting of the Solimões and Negro rivers, in state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Expeditions to collect molluscs were carried out between 2004 and 2006, during high and low water seasons. Three hundred and thirty-one bivalve shells, 25 valves, and 57 live specimens of four families and 10 species were identified. A single exotic species, Corbicula fluminea, represented over half the collected shells. All bivalve shells were photographed and registered at the mollusc collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus.