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Semimytilus algosus (Gould, 1850) 
AphiaID: 224601

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Semimytilus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Semimytilus Soot-Ryen, 1955
Synonymised
taxa		  Modiolus nonuranus Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935
 Mytilus algosus Gould, 1850 (original combination)
 Mytilus cuneiformis Reeve, 1857 (secondary homonym of Modiola cuneiformis Hanley, 1843)
 Mytilus dactyliformis Hupé in Gay, 1854
 Mytilus patagonicus Clessin, 1887
 Mytilus similis 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]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English bisexual mussel  [details]
Distribution Namibia [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 22 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Semimytilus algosus
Semimytilus algosus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Semimytilus algosus
Semimytilus algosus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224601
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-16 11:07:45Z  created  Mussai, Prakash
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Semimytilus algosus (Gould, 1850). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224601 on 2013-05-22
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