Mariaelena Fedi

• Biodiversity Journal, 14 (4): 0673-0687

  Marco Bodon, Simone Cianfanelli, Mariaelena Fedi, Serena Barone, Lucia Liccioli & Alberto Girod
  Further records and dating of Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793) (Bivalvia Margaritiferidae), from Cagnola Canal (Veneto, Italy)
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2023.14.4.673.687

  ABSTRACT
  Pseudunio auricularius (Spengler, 1793) (Bivalvia Margaritiferidae) is one of the largest European freshwater bivalves; it is considered critically endangered worldwide, and it is extinct in Italy. A large number of damaged ancient shells have been collected in 1991 from Cagnola Canal (Province of Padua, Veneto, Italy) and radiocarbon dated. The results indicate that the extinction of the local P. auricularius population in Veneto occurred in the second half of 1800. The direct anthropic impact may have been the source of significant disturbance to the local extinction of P. auricularius.

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