TY - JOUR AU - Mohamadzadeh, Hosein AU - Kashiri, Hadise AU - Shirangi, Ainaz AU - Taskinen, Jouni AU - Khaleghi, Reza AU - Ghadermarzi, Amir PY - 2022/12/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Morphological and molecular analysis of the freshwater bivalve Anodonta anatina in Iran and Finland JF - International Journal of Aquatic Biology JA - Intl. J. Aquat. Biol. VL - 10 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.22034/ijab.v10i6.1771 UR - https://ij-aquaticbiology.com/index.php/ijab/article/view/1771 SP - 478-488 AB - <p>Duck mussel, <em>Anodonta anatina </em>is a habitat generalist inhabiting both lentic and lotic aquatic ecosystems. Due to high morphological similarity and phenotypic plasticity, <em>A. anatina </em>has sometimes been misidentified as <em>A. cygnea</em>. Here, morphological and molecular studies were conducted on <em>Anodonta</em> mussels inhabiting North Iran and Finland. The individuals were collected from Anzali Wetland, Tajan River (North Iran) and Jyväsjärvi Lake (Finland). The COI sequence analysis showed the existence of <em>A. anatina</em> in the sampling areas. The Iranian and Finland specimens showed three and two haplotypes, respectively. The Iranian haplotypes were placed in a single clade, while the Finland haplotypes were clustered with those of Central Europe. The mean <em>P</em>-distance between these two clades was 2.4. The median-joining network showed that the Iranian haplotypes were lumped into a single haplogroup, while the Finland ones were in the same haplogroup as those from Central Europe. The Mediterranean haplotypes were the most divergent haplogroup from both Iranian and Central European haplogroups. In morphological characteristics, the shell pattern of all individuals from both Iranian and Finland specimens was stretched and slightly compact with light/dark brown periostracum. The mean length of the specimens from Anzali Wetland was significantly higher than those of Tajan and Jyväsjärvi. No significant difference was observed in morphometric characteristics between Tajan and Jyväsjärvi populations. The results did not indicate significant variation in shell morphology in the studied groups. In this regard, the conventional linear measurements can be supplemented using more complex geometric morphology in further studies.</p> ER -