
Also known as Dreissena polymorpha
species of mollusc
many-shaped dreissena
KINGDOM
Just like other freshwater mussels, zebra mussels play an important role in keeping water clean. In European waters, an individual mussel can filter 76 milliliters of water per hour. This means that zebra mussels in the IJsselmeer are capable of filtering the entire lake around two times per month, clearing up the lake considerably. Zebra mussels can also cause an enormous amount of economic damage. They attach themselves easily to exhaust pipes of power stations and cooling water systems, plugging them up. In North America in particular, they form a large problem.
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斑馬貽貝(學名:Dreissena polymorpha),亦作斑馬紋貽貝或多形飾貝,是一種小型的淡水生活雙殼綱軟體動物,屬於簾蛤目飾貝科。其种加词“zebra”意为“有斑马状纹样的”。本物種原生於俄羅斯南部及烏克蘭的裏海及黑海區域,處於歐洲及亞洲的交界。本物種由德國博物學家彼得·西蒙·帕拉斯於1769年描述,模式產地在烏拉爾河、伏爾加河及聶伯河。 斑馬貽貝於1986年時意外透過壓艙水被引進到北美洲的五大湖區,然後又透過五大湖區在美國伊利諾州芝加哥河連接往密西西比河河谷的水閘往南擴散,直到墨西哥灣。 斑馬貽貝得名於其外殼上常見的條狀花紋,儘管這些條紋並非每一隻的外殼都會有。個體大約如手指甲的大小,但最大可以長到約2英寸(5.1 cm)。外殼形像呈拉丁字母「D」字的形狀,有強壯的從其的背部固着到基底質。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).