CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Bivalvia (class)  »  Mytiloida (order)  »  Mytilidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 220001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Mytilus galloprovincialis   Lamarck, 1819
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 23 220 Mytilidae (mussels) - show full list Common Name (AS5300): Blue Mussel Common Names List: blue mussel Australian blue mussel black mussel Organism Type: a mussel Synonyms: Mytilus planulatus Mytilus edulis Mytilus edulis planulatus Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus Mytilus edulis aoteanus Mytilus aoteanus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 23 220918     Mytilus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 00 652001, 652001, 23 220002

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Taxon Notes:	Recent genetic work has shown that the Mytilus mussels in this region most likely originate from an invasion of M. galloprovincialis from the northern Atlantic during the Pleistocene and then became isolated. However, there is also evidence of very recent invasions from northern Europe, probably associated with shipping, and recent genetic work has shown extensive interbreeding between the native Mytilus and these recent arrivals.
Scientific Name Notes:	This species has been known under several names in this region, including Mytilus edulis and M. planulatus. While the Australian/New Zealand population has some genetic differences from European M. galloprovincialis, recent genetic work has shown that they are not sufficiently distinct to be considered separate species or even subspecies.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ddee5a83-522f-4502-a725-02a93d37c2c6 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia ITIS 79456 View at ITIS MoV 1562 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506160 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden
Scientific Name verified against:	Ab Rahim, E.S., Nguyen, T.T.T., Ingram, B., Riginos, C., Weston, K.J., Sherman, C.D.H., 2016. Species composition and hybridisation of mussel species (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) in Australia., Marine and Freshwater Research, Vol. 67: 1955-1963. . dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF15307 doi:10.1071/MF15307