African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848)

AfReMaS taxon details

Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848)

AphiaID

216616 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216616)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

Orig. name

Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848

Synonymised names

Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted

Brachyodontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted (misspelled generic name)

Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted (original combination: declared...)

original combination: declared nomen protectum by Cosel et al. (2014)

Perna variabilis (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted (unaccepted generic combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 25-26, pl. 2 fig. 5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216616 on 2024-04-26

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216616 on 2024-04-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-12 09:16:46Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2011-10-07 23:42:53Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2012-03-08 21:04:46Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2012-07-05 23:43:01Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2014-03-04 16:00:58Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 25-26, pl. 2 fig. 5 [details]

taxonomy source Sirna Terranova M., Lo Brutto S., Arculeo M. & Mitton J.B. 2007. A mitochondrial phylogeography of Brachidontes variabilis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) reveals three cryptic species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 45(4): 289–298. [details]

basis of record Taylor, J. D. (1971). Intertidal Zonation at Aldabra Atoll. Phil. Trns. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 260:173-213. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Brachyodontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) (from synonym Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848)