Dreissena elata elata (Andrusov, 1897:353)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Dreissensia polymorpha var. elata Andrusov, 1897; Dreissena (Dreissena) elata (Andrusov, 1897); Dreissena lata (Andrusov, 1897); Dreissensia polymorpha var. lata Andrusov, 1897

Considered a nomen dubium by (MolluscBase eds., 2025).

Conservation Status

Missing (Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969 fide van de Velde et al., 2020; van de Velde et al., 2019) or Extinct (Kostianoy & Kosarev, 2005 and references therein) if valid (Wesselingh et al., 2019; MolluscBase eds., 2025)

Last record: 1957 (Kostianoy & Kosarev, 2005); "disappeared in the second half of the 20th Century" (van de Velde et al., 2019)

Distribution & Habitat

Caspian Sea

Type locality: "The Western Caspian Sea, Kuuli Cape, Dazmyk, Apsheron" (MolluscBase eds., 2025)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Andrusov, N. (1897). Ископаемые и живущие Dreissensidae Евразии [Iskopayemyye i zhivushchiye Dreissensidae Yevrazii / Fossile und lebende Dreissensidae Eurasiens]. Tipografiya M. Merkusheva, St. Petersburg. iv + 683 + [4] pp. + 20 pls.

Other references:

Bogutskaya, N. G., Kijashko, P. V., Naseka, A. M. and Orlova, M. I. (2013). Identification keys for fish and invertebrates. Volume 1: Fish and molluscs. КМК Scientific Press Ltd., St. Petersburg - Moscow.

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 1 July 2025.

Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Kantor, Y. I., Vinarski, M. V., Schileyko, A. A. and Sysoev, A. V. (2010). Catalogue of the Continental Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Territories, Version 2.3.1. 330 pp.

Kostianoy, A. G. and Kosarev, A. N. (2005). The Caspian Sea Environment. Heidelberg: Springer Berlin. 271 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/b138238

Logvinenko, B. M. and Starobogatov, Y. I. (1969). Mollusca, pp. 308-385. In: Birshtein, Y. A., Vinogradov, L. G., Kondakov, N. N., Kuhn, M. S., Astakhova, T. V., Romanova, N. N. (ed.). Atlas Bespozvonochnykh Kaspiyskogo Morya [Atlas of Invertebrates of the Caspian Sea]. Pishchevaya Promyshlennost (Vsesoyuznyi Nauchno-issledovatel'skii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii), Moscow.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dreissena elata Andrusov, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505318 on 2025-07-01

Orlova, Marina I., Therriault, Thomas W., Antonov, Pavel I. and Shcherbina, Gregory Kh. (2005). Invasion ecology of quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis): a review of evolutionary and phylogenetic impacts. Aquatic Ecology 39: 401-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-005-9010-6

Rosenberg, G. and Ludyanskiy, M. L. (1994). A Nomenclatural Review of Dreissena (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae), with Identification of the Quagga Mussel as Dreissena bugensis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51: 1474-1484. https://doi.org/10.1139/f94-147

van de Velde, Sabrina, Wesselingh, Frank P., Yanina, Tamara A., Anistratenko, Vitaliy V., Neubauer, Thomas A., ter Poorten, Jan Johan, Vonhof, Hubert B. and Kroonenberg, Salomon B. (2019). Mollusc biodiversity in late Holocene nearshore environments of the Caspian Sea: A baseline for the current biodiversity crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 535: 109364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109364

van de Velde, Sabrina, Yanina, Tamara A., Neubauer, Thomas A. and Wesselingh, Frank P. (2020). The Late Pleistocene mollusk fauna of Selitrennoye (Astrakhan province, Russia): A natural baseline for endemic Caspian Sea faunas. Journal of Great Lakes Research 46(5): 1227-1239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.04.001

Vinarski, M. V. and Kantor, YuI. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow: A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS. 544 pp.

Wesselingh, F. P., Neubauer, T. A., Anistratenko, V. V., Vinarski, M., Yanina, T., ter Poorten, J. J., Kijashko, P., Albrecht, C., Anistratenko, O. Y., D'Hont, A., Frolov, P., Gándara, A. M., Gittenberger, A., Gogaladze, A., Karpinsky, M., Lattuada, M., Popa, L., Sands, A. F., Van de Velde, S., Vandendorpe, J. and Wilke, T. (2019). Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region – an expert opinion list. ZooKeys 827: 31-124. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.31365

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/24974/dreissena-elata

<< Back to the Bivalvia (Mussels, Clams, Oysters etc.) database