WoRMS taxon details
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 140480
AphiaID: 140480
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Mytilus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Eumytilus Ihering, 1900 Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mytilus abbreviatus Lamarck, 1819 Mytilus borealis Lamarck, 1819 Mytilus edulis pusillus Macgillivray, 1843 Mytilus elegans Brown, 1827 Mytilus grunerianus Dunker, 1853 Mytilus minganensis Mighels, 1844 Mytilus notatus DeKay, 1843 Mytilus pellucidus Pennant, 1777 Mytilus retusus Lamarck, 1819 Mytilus subsaxatilis Williamson, 1834 Mytilus ungulatus Linnaeus, 1758 Mytilus variabilis Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Mytilus vulgaris da Costa, 1778 Perna ungulina Philipsson, 1788 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details] additional source: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Mytilus edulis edulis Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Mytilus edulis platensis d'Orbigny, 1842 Subspecies Mytilus edulis declivis Petrov, 1982 accepted as Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850 Subspecies Mytilus edulis diegensis Coe, 1945 accepted as Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 Subspecies Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 Subspecies Mytilus edulis giganteus Nordmann, 1862 accepted as Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837 Subspecies Mytilus edulis kussakini Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979 accepted as Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850 Subspecies Mytilus edulis latissimus Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850 Subspecies Mytilus edulis normalis Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850 Subspecies Mytilus edulis pusillus Macgillivray, 1843 accepted as Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Mytilus edulis zhirmunskii Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979 accepted as Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Azores [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Beaufort Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Birkenfels (shipwreck) [details] Brandy Cove [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] De Panne [details] Deadmans Harbour [details] Dorset [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) [details] North Adriatic [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Modiolicola insignis Aurivillius, 1882 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer, 1902 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Modiolicola bifida Tanaka, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Modiolicola gracilis Wilson C.B., 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Tisbe celata Humes, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pseudomyicola ostreae Yamaguti, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (258 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1674 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Cultured Aquatic species fact sheets To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (8238 nucleotides; 1728 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 to 7.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic Ocean to South Carolina; Alaska to Carolina [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140480 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140480 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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