Check List 4(4): 395-400, doi: 10.15560/4.4.395
Freshwater mussels of Catalão, confluence of Solimões and Negro rivers, state of Amazonas, Brazil
Daniel Mansur Pimpão‡, Marcelo Salles Rocha‡, Daniela de Castro Fettuccia‡‡ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
Corresponding author: Daniel Pimpão ( danielpimpao@yahoo.com.br ) © 2017 Daniel Pimpão, Marcelo Rocha, Daniela Fettuccia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Pimpão D, Rocha M, Fettuccia D (2008) Freshwater mussels of Catalão, confluence of Solimões and Negro rivers, state of Amazonas, Brazil. Check List 4(4): 395-400. 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.
Keywords
Mollusca; Bivalvia; Amazonas; Brazil