MolluscaBase - Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

MolluscaBase name details

Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

AphiaID

151896 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151896)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

Rank

Subspecies

Parent

Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

Environment

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

Original description

(of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819) 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 edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151896 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-07 12:32:21Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2020-04-25 00:49:35Z

checked

Marshall, Bruce

2021-12-12 08:23:29Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-12-25 19:18:00Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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original description (of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819) 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]

basis of record Gittenberger, A. & Gittenberger, E. (2021). Polytypic Mytilus edulis, with a name for the Baltic subspecies (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Basteria. 85(2): 116-125.
page(s): 121, figs 1, 6-7 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Synonymy This species is sometimes considered a subspecies of M. edulis. However, Ahmad & Beardmore (1976) have demonstrated, using arguments from electrophoresis (enzyms), that M. galloprovincialis is a separate species. According to Verduin (1979), there are also conchiological arguments to keep the two species distinct. Ahmad & Beardmore (1976) and Verduin (1979) are followed in the use of the name.
Gosling (1984) suggest in a recent review that M. galloprovincialis could be at most a variety of M. edulis. [details]

Language	Name
Dutch	krombekmossel	[details]

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