BeRMS taxon details

Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilidae Rafinesque, 1815 
AphiaID: 211

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPteriomorphia > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilida > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytiloidea > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilidae
Status accepted
Rank Family
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytiloidea Rafinesque, 1815
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. [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editormossels  [details]
Swedish Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorblåmusslor  [details]
Direct child
taxa (4)
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[sort alpha..]		 Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus Lamarck, 1799
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMusculus Röding, 1798
Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus Linnaeus, 1758

Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolarca Gray, 1842 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMusculus (Modiolarca) Gray, 1842 represented as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMusculus Röding, 1798
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2012-01-04 17:55:52Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2012). Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010 onwards). The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211 on 2016-09-26
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