Mytilus
creator: Gofas, Serge
creator: Bouchet, Philippe
creator: Vinarski, Maxim
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138228 on 2026-08-25
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2018-09-01T09:44:44Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758
class: Bivalvia
family: Mytilidae
genus: Mytilus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp.
name published in: Allison, R. C.; Addicott, W. O. (1976). The North Pacific Miocene record of Mytilus (Plicatomytilus), a new subgenus of Bivalvia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. 962: 1-22.
name published in: Conrad, T. A. (1862). Descriptions of new genera, subgenera and species of Tertiary and Recent shells. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 14: 284-291.
name published in: Ihering, H. von. (1900). On the South American species of Mytilidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4 (2): 84-98.
name published in: Kafanov A.I. (1984). A system of the subfamily Mytilinae (Bivalvia, Mytilidae). In: Morfologiya, sistematika, filogeniya i ekogenez dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov [= Morphology, systematics, phylogeny, anf ecogenesis of bivalve mollusks]: Abstracts of communcations. Moscow: Nauka Publishers. 43-45.
name published in: Scarlato O.A. & Starobogatov Y.I. (1979). The systematic position and distribution of mussels. In: Commercial bivalve molluscan mussels and their role in the ecosystem (Scarlato O., ed.) [in russian]. * Zoological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences p. 106-111:
name published in: Schlotheim, E. F. von. (1813). Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Versteinerungen in geognostischer Hinsicht. Taschenbuch für die gesammte Mineralogie, mit Hinsicht auf die neuesten Entdeckungen, herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Caesar Leonhard. 7: 3-134.
name published in year: 1758
name published in year: 1976
name published in year: 1862
name published in year: 1900
name published in year: 1984
name published in year: 1979
name published in year: 1813
order: Mytilida
parent name usage ID: 224589
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: Linnaeus, 1758
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted