original description
Schlotheim, E. F. von. (1813). Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Versteinerungen in geognostischer Hinsicht. <em>Taschenbuch für die gesammte Mineralogie, mit Hinsicht auf die neuesten Entdeckungen, herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Caesar Leonhard.</em> 7: 3-134., available online at https://archive.org/stream/taschenbuchfrdi24leongoog#page/n19/
page(s): 105 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Not available from Gesner, 1758 [Tractatus physicus de petrificatis...: 38; work placed on the Official Index by Opinion 230]. Mytilites [Wahlenberg, 1821, Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsalensis, 8: 57] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. Established for fossils of Mytilus to distinguish them from extant members of that taxon. Invalid: available only for the purposes of the Principle of Homonymy (Art. 20). [details]