Dreissena caspia pallasi Andrusov, 1897

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonyms: Dreissena pallasi Andrusov, 1897; Dreissena (Dreissena) caspia pallasi Andrusov, 1897; Dreissensia pallasi Andrusov, 1897

See Graf & Cummings (2025) for a more complete taxonomic history.

Conservation Status

Missing (Rintelen & Van Damme, 2011; Cowie et al., 2017) or Invalid (synonym of D. polymorpha) (Wesselingh et al., 2019; MolluscBase eds., 2025)

Last record: 1980 (Aladin & Potts 1992)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution & Habitat

Aral Sea

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:

Aladin, N. V. and Potts, W. T. W. (1992). Changes in the Aral Sea ecosystems during the period 1960-1990. Hydrobiologia 237: 67-79.

Andreev, N. I., Andreeva, S. I., Filippov, A. A. and Aladin, N. V. (1992). The fauna of the Aral Sea in 1989. 1. The benthos. International Journal of Salt Lake Research 1: 103-110.

Andreeva, S. I. and Andreev, N. I. (2003). Evolyutsionnyye preobrazovaniya dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov Aral’skogo morya v usloviyakh ekologicheskogo krizisa. Omsk: Omskiy Gosudarstvennyy Pedagogicheskiy Universitet. 382 pp.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

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.

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 2.3.1Catalogue of the Continental Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Territories, version 2.3.1. 330 pp.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181566 on 2025-07-01

Rintelen, T. and Van Damme, D. (2011). Dreissena caspia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T188971A8669278. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188971A8669278.en. Downloaded on 25 December 2015.

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

Starobogatov, Ya. I. (1974). Phylum Mollusca. In: Mordukhai-Boltovskoi F.D. (ed.) Guide book to invertebrates of the Aral Sea. Moscow, Pishchevaya Promyshlennost: 237-257. [In Russian]

Vinarski, M. V. and Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. 544 pp. [p. 76]

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

Zhadin, V. I. (1965). Mollusks of fresh and brackish waters of the USSR. 365 pp.

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