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Mytella guyanensis (Lamarck, 1819) 
AphiaID: 533145

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Mytella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955
Synonymised
taxa
  Modiola bicolor Lamarck, 1819
Modiola brasiliensis Gray, 1825
Modiola brasiliensis var. mutabilis Carpenter, 1857
Modiola guyanensis Lamarck, 1819 (original combination)
Modiola semifusca G. B. Sowerby I, 1825
Modiola sinuosa King & Broderip, 1832
Modiola subfuscata Clessin, 1887
Mytella bicolor (Bruguière, 1792)
Mytella brasiliensis (Gray, 1825)
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]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Mytella guyanensis
Mytella guyanensis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Mytella guyanensis
Mytella guyanensis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:533145
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-10-15 08:28:27Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-10-15 08:54:50Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mytella guyanensis (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533145 on 2013-05-19
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