WRiMS taxon details
original description
Hupé L.H. (1854). Fauna Chilena. Moluscos, pp. 1-407, <i>In:</i> Gay, C. (1854). Historia física y política de Chile según documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno. Zoología, Tomo 8. Paris, published by the author, and Santiago de Chile, Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16153144 page(s): 309, pl. 5 fig. 4 [details]
context source (PeRMS)
Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). <i>Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile</i>. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp. [details]
basis of record
Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). <i>Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile</i>. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp. page(s): 99, pl. 33 [details]
additional source
Borsa P., Rolland V. & Claire Daguin-Thiébaut C. (2012) Genetics and taxonomy of Chilean smooth-shelled mussels, <i>Mytilus</i> spp. (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). <i>Comptes Rendus Biologies</i> 335: 51–61., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2011.10.002 note: synonymized with M. platensis [details]
additional source
Huber M. (2015). <i>Compendium of Bivalves 2. A Full-Color Guide to the Remaining Seven Families. A Systematic Listing of 8,500 Bivalve Species and 10,500 Synonyms.</i> ConchBooks, Harxheim, Germany,. 901 pp. + 1 CD-ROM (containing chapters 5 and 6.461) [Tellinidae by Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, pp. 167-297]. note: Huber (2015) considered the molecular results of Borsa et al. (2012) insufficient to warrant synonymy of M. chilensis and M. platensis, preferring to treat them both as valid species. [details]
status source
Larraín M.A., Zbawicka M., Araneda C., Gardner J.P.A. & Wenne R. (2017). Native and invasive taxa on the Pacific coast of South America: Impacts on aquaculture, traceability and biodiversity of blue mussels (<i>Mytilus</i> spp.). <em>Evolutionary Applications.</em> (2017): 1-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12553 [details] 
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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