Critically Endangered
Microcondylaea bonellii
Microcondylaea bonellii
Microcondylaea bonellii is a bivalve in the family Unionidae (order Unionida), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The bivalve
Microcondylaea bonellii is a bivalve in the family Unionidae (order Unionida).
Range and habitat
The species is endemic to South Europe. Microcondylaea bonellii is a freshwater bivalve occurring in both rivers and lakes. It was known from Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Lake Ohrid in Albania/North Macedonia, and Greece.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Freshwater mussels bury in the bed and live for decades if the river still runs and the host fish still spawn.
In crisis
Even so, it is extinct in Switzerland and Greece and possibly extinct in Lake Ohrid. Small populations remain in northern Italy, Slovenia, Montenegro, Albania and Croatia.
Microcondylaea bonellii is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Microcondylaea bonellii, Wikidata item Q25647600. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
