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WoRMS taxon detailsBrachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819)
505995 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505995)
accepted
Species
Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted
marine
(of Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): vol. 6(1) p. 122 [details]
Note The type locality mentioned by Lamarck is...
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Type locality The type locality mentioned by Lamarck is Brazil, but Lamy (1920: 416) argues that the collectors Péron & Lesueur never visited Brazil, but instead Australia, and two other lots from the same collectors from Australia are present in the Paris Museum. This indicates that Australia is the correct type locality for this species. [details]
Nomenclature The name Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819) has been put forward by Huber (2010: 550) as a widely distributed species,...
Nomenclature The name Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819) has been put forward by Huber (2010: 550) as a widely distributed species, with several synonyms. However, a recent molecular study (Sirna Terranova, Lo Brutto, Arculeo & Mitton, 2007) reveals that the Red Sea and Mediterranean populations, the East African populations and a population from Hong Kong represent three cryptic species of Brachidontes. This implies separating the Red Sea B. pharaonis from the East African B. variabilis. There is currently an established usage of the name Brachidontes ustulatus for the Western Australian species, and in view of the findings of Sirna Terranova et al., all three names (ustulatus, variabilis and pharaonis) are listed as "accepted". The correct name for the Hong Kong population is B. mutabilis (Gould, 1861) following Huber, 2010. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505995 on 2025-05-29
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 page(s): vol. 6(1) p. 122 [details] basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 550. [details] Otheradditional source
Wells, F. E. & Bryce, C. W. (1984). A guide to the common molluscs of south-western Australian estuaries. <em>Western Australian Museum.</em> 112 pp. [details]
additional source Lamy, E. (1920). Notes sur les espèces de <i>Mytilus</i> décrites par Lamarck. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 26 (4): 330-335, 26 (5): 415-422, 26 (6): 520-526., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5034505 page(s): 415-416. [details] additional source Tan, S. H. M.; Wells, F. E.; Lukehurst, S. S.; Strong, E. E.; Sanpanich, K.; Duangdee, T.; Ambarwati, R.; Tan, K. S. (2024). Unravelling the <i>Brachidontes variabilis</i> species complex (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) of the Indo-Pacific region. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 90(4): Published online 5 November., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae037 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature The name Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819) has been put forward by Huber (2010: 550) as a widely distributed species, with several synonyms. However, a recent molecular study (Sirna Terranova, Lo Brutto, Arculeo & Mitton, 2007) reveals that the Red Sea and Mediterranean populations, the East African populations and a population from Hong Kong represent three cryptic species of Brachidontes. This implies separating the Red Sea B. pharaonis from the East African B. variabilis. There is currently an established usage of the name Brachidontes ustulatus for the Western Australian species, and in view of the findings of Sirna Terranova et al., all three names (ustulatus, variabilis and pharaonis) are listed as "accepted". The correct name for the Hong Kong population is B. mutabilis (Gould, 1861) following Huber, 2010. [details]Type locality The type locality mentioned by Lamarck is Brazil, but Lamy (1920: 416) argues that the collectors Péron & Lesueur never visited Brazil, but instead Australia, and two other lots from the same collectors from Australia are present in the Paris Museum. This indicates that Australia is the correct type locality for this species. [details]
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819) To Malacopics (Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819) Australia, Western Australia, Fremantle, on s... To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-34500) (from synonym Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819) To PESI To PESI (from synonym Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819) |
