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Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837 
AphiaID: 367837

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  Pacifimytilus Kafanov, 1984
Parent Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Mytilus californicus (misspelling)
Mytilus canalis Lamarck, 1819
Mytilus edulis giganteus Nordmann, 1862
Mytilus zonarius Lamarck, 1819
Sources  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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Host of  Modiolicola gracilis Wilson C.B., 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (68 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications)
To GenBank (43280 nucleotides; 960 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Mytilus californianus
Mytilus californianus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367837
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-10-01 07:48:25Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-11-19 08:53:28Z  changed  Huber, Markus
2012-06-22 14:07:56Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367837 on 2013-05-25
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