| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Genus |
| Typetaxon | | Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758 (type by subsequent designation)
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| Parent | | Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
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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]
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]
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[show all] | | Species Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
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| Environment | | marine |
| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Links | | To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
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Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
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Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
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Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
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Mytilus edulis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ( )
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Mytilus edulis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Dissection mussel (Dutch)
added on 2011-06-17 - author: Copejans, Evy
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138228 |
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| | | Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138228 on 2013-05-23 |
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