MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Mon 2 March 2026
Bivalvia | Mytilida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae | Mytilus
species Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758: synonymy
Synonymy
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat. 1: 705.
Mytilus edulis — Zhadin (1965), Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Scarabino (2003), Stepien et al. (2003), Rumi et al. (2008), Huber (2010), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Wang et al. (2024)
Mytilus platensis d’Orbigny, 1842
d’Orbigny, 1842. unknown publication: ??.
Mytilus edulis — Scarabino (2003)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Mytilus edulis — Zhadin (1965), Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Scarabino (2003), Stepien et al. (2003), Rumi et al. (2008), Huber (2010), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Klymus et al. (2020), Wang et al. (2024)
