WoRMS taxon details
Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850
AphiaID: 140482
AphiaID: 140482
| 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 | |||||||
| Parent | Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mytilus edulis declivis Petrov, 1982 Mytilus edulis kussakini Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979 Mytilus edulis latissimus Carpenter, 1857 Mytilus edulis normalis Carpenter, 1857 Mytilus ficus Dall, 1909 Mytilus glomeratus Gould, 1851 Mytilus pedroanus Conrad, 1855 Mytilus septentrionalis Clessin, 1887 | |||||||
| Sources |
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] 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] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Rawson, P.D., S. Hayhurst and B. Vanscoyoc. 2001. Species composition of blue mussel in the northeastern Gulf of Maine. Journal of Shellfish Research 20 (1): 31-38. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] | |||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Host of |
Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stoecharthrum fosterae Kozloff, 1993 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (169 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (803 nucleotides; 579 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Diet: plankton [details] Dimensions: generally 6-10 cm long, 3-5 cm high [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay; south to Little Machias Bay [details] Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of Gulf and estuary; common in rocky intertidal to 40 m, also found on docks, pilings, floats, and gravel [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Importance: coexists and hybridizes with M. edulis; M. trossulus is less desirable for aquaculture and a limiting factor in mussel farm production [details] Predators: sea stars, gastropods, crabs, fish, seabirds [details] Reproduction: late spring to early autumn; settle in 5-7 wk [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140482 | |||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140482 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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