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Musculus cumingianus (Reeve, 1857) 
AphiaID: 207778

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Musculus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Musculus Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa		  Modiola cumingianus Reeve, 1857
 Modiolus cumingianus (Reeve, 1857)
 Musculus ulmus Iredale, 1936
Sources  basis of record: Huber M. (2010) 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

basis of record: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details]

additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 160 [details]

from synonym: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Kisite Marine National Park [details]
Mombasa [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Musculus cumingianus
Musculus cumingianus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207778
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-08-17 07:11:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2012-07-05 23:43:01Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Musculus cumingianus (Reeve, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207778 on 2013-05-18
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