Mytilus americanus Reeve, 1858

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus Mytilus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, 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”]]. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=400953

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Mollusca

class

Bivalvia

order

Myida

family

Dreissenidae

genus

Mytilopsis

species

Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Name

Homonyms

Mytilus americanus Reeve, 1858

Mytilus americanus d'Orbigny, 1846

Bibliographic References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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"]].
5. 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.