African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

AfReMaS taxon details

Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

AphiaID

140481 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140481)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 126 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140481 on 2025-11-11

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140481 on 2025-11-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2015-01-16 10:00:55Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-25 00:49:35Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 126 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Molnar, J.L., R.L. Gamboa, C. Revenga & M.D. Spalding. (2008). Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6(9): 485-492., available online at https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationPractices/Marine/Pages/marineinvasives.aspx [details] Available for editors

context source (HKRMS) Britton, J. C. (1990). The intertidal crevice fauna of Tolo Channel and Harbour, New Territories, Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China . The Marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern china II, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: 803-835. [details]

additional source Gosling E. (editor) (1992). The mussel Mytilus: ecology, physiology, genetics and culture. * Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, 25. Elsevier, Amsterdam. xiii + 589 pp.: [details]

additional source 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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Rawson, P. D.; Joyner, K. L.; Meetze, K.; Hilbish, T. J. (1996). Evidence for intragenic recombination within a novel genetic marker that distinguishes mussels in the Mytilus edulis species complex. Heredity. 77(6): 599-607., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1996.187 [details] Available for editors

additional source Lubet P. (1959). Recherches sur le cycle sexuel et l'émission des gamètes chez les Mytilidés et les Pectinidés. Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches Maritimes. 23(3): 384-548., available online at http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1959/publication-4507.pdf [details]

additional source Zbawicka, M., Gardner, J.P.A. & Wenne, R. (2019). Cryptic diversity in smooth-shelled mussels on Southern Ocean islands: connectivity, hybridisation and a marine invasion. Frontiers in Zoology. 16 (32). 12 pp. [details]

additional source Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 99, pl. 33 [details]

additional source Ishida, S.; Iwasaki, K.; Kuwahara, Y. (2005). Initial Invasion History and Process of Range Extension of Mytilus galloprovincialis – Inferred from the Specimens Collected by T. Furukawa. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 64 (3-4): 151-159. [details] Available for editors

additional source Ubukata, T. (2000). Theoretical Morphology of Composite Prismatic, Fibrous Prismatic and Foliated Shell Microstructures in Bivalves. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 59 (4): 297-305. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hayazake, E.; Tanabe, K. (1999). Early Larval Shell Development in Mytilid Bivalve Mytilus galloprovincialis. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 58 (3): 119-127. [details] Available for editors

additional source Ieyama, H. ; Kameoka, O. ; Tan, T. ; Yamasaki, J. (1994). Chromosomes and Nuclear DNA Contents of Some Species in Mytilidae. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 53(4):327-331. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hosomi, A. (1987). On the Density Effeetin Populations of the Mussel,Mytilus galloprovincialis. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 46(2):116-126. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hosomi, A. (1985). The Production, Daily Production, Biomass and Turn-over Rate of the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 44(4):270--277. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hosomi, A. (1985). On Several Fundamental Allometries of the Mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 44(3.) : 172-182. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hosomi, A. (1985). On the Persistent Trend of Constant Biomass and the Constant Total Occupation Area of the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck). VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 44(1): 33-48. [details] Available for editors

additional source Hosomi, A. (1984). Ecological Studies on the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck)- III. Rise and Fall of Recruited Cohorts in Adult Mussel Bed. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 43(2):157-171. [details] Available for editors

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 176-177 [details]