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Notes on the thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in Stradomka (southern Poland), a tributary of the Raba river
 
 
 
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Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland
 
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Institute of Zoology, Department of Entomology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
 
 
Submission date: 2016-07-18
 
 
Final revision date: 2016-10-10
 
 
Acceptance date: 2016-10-21
 
 
Publication date: 2016-12-05
 
 
Corresponding author
Maciej Bonk   

Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. A. Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Cracow, Poland
Institute of Zoology, Department of Entomology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Cracow, Poland
 
 
Folia Malacol. 2016;24(4):289-293
 
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This contribution presents new data on the occurrence of the thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus in the Stradomka river and its tributaries (S. Poland), not surveyed earlier. Live specimens and empty shells were found in 14 localities, mostly in the Stradomka river.
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