WoRMS name details

Mytilus americanus Reeve, 1858

541467  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:541467)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Mytilida (Order)
  8. Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
  9. Mytilidae (Family)
  10. Mytilinae (Subfamily)
  11. Mytilus (Genus)
  12. Mytilus americanus (Species)
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Reeve, L. A. (1857-1858). Monograph of the genus <i>Mytilus</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 10, pl. 1-11 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2, 3, Jun. 1857; 4-7, Aug. 1857; 1, 8-11, Jan. 1858 [pl. 9 as "1857"]]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127450
page(s): pl. 10, fig. 43 [details] 
Homonymy A junior homonym of Mytilus americanus d’Orbigny, 1846  
Homonymy A junior homonym of Mytilus americanus d’Orbigny, 1846 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilus americanus Reeve, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=541467 on 2025-04-12
Date
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2010-11-10 15:53:17Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2010-11-10 16:07:33Z
checked
Huber, Markus
2022-09-05 17:11:07Z
changed
Auffenberg, Kurt
2022-11-25 09:21:28Z
changed
Vinarski, Maxim
2022-12-19 11:52:03Z
changed
Schneider, Simon

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Nomenclature

original description Reeve, L. A. (1857-1858). Monograph of the genus <i>Mytilus</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 10, pl. 1-11 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2, 3, Jun. 1857; 4-7, Aug. 1857; 1, 8-11, Jan. 1858 [pl. 9 as "1857"]]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127450
page(s): pl. 10, fig. 43 [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) [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Vinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp.
page(s): 78 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Guppy, R. J. L. (1895). The Molluska of the Gulf of Paria. <em>Proceedings of the Victoria Institute of Trinidad.</em> Pt. 2: 116-152., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54372323
page(s): 147 [details] 

additional source Guppy, R. J. L. (1879). First sketch of a marine invertebrate fauna of the Gulf of Paria and its neighbourhood. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 2: 151-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31584869
page(s): 168 [details] 

From editor or global species database
Homonymy A junior homonym of Mytilus americanus d’Orbigny, 1846 [details]

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