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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MYTILIDAE: MYTILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Mytilida (Order)
> Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
> Mytilidae (Family)
> Mytilinae (Subfamily)
> Mytilus (Genus)
> galloprovincialis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Crassimytilus Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
=Eumytilus Ihering, 1900
=Pacifimytilus Kafanov, 1984
Synonymised Names:
=Mytilus aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
=Mytilus edulis aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus planulatus Lamarck, 1819
Images: Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 68mm
Among seaweed, Auckland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MYTILIDAE: MYTILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Mytilida (Order)
> Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
> Mytilidae (Family)
> Mytilinae (Subfamily)
> Mytilus (Genus)
> galloprovincialis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Crassimytilus Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
=Eumytilus Ihering, 1900
=Pacifimytilus Kafanov, 1984
Synonymised Names:
=Mytilus aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
=Mytilus edulis aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus edulis galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus planulatus Lamarck, 1819
Details: Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
Size/Grows to:
Length 150mm, Width 63mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Blue Mussel, Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Gardner, J.P.A., Westfall, K.M. 2012 Geographic distribution and molecular identification of a metapopulation of blue mussels (genus Mytilus) in northeastern New Zealand., Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78 (p.66)
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. Dec/2010 The Blue Mussel, Mytilus galloprovinilalis planulatus, expands its range around Auckland, Poirieria, 35 (p.25)
  • Beu, A.G. 2004 Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 34 (p.147)
  • Gardner, J.P.A. 2004 A historical perspective of the genus Mytilus (Bivalvia: Mollusca) in New Zealand: Multivariate morphometric analyses of fossil, midden and contemporary blue mussels, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 82 (p.329)
  • Gardner, J.P.A. 1992 Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lmk) (Bivalvia, Mollusca): The taxonomic status of the Mediterranean mussel, Ophelia, 35 (p.239)
  • McDonald, J.H., Seed, R., Koeln, R.K. 1991 Allozymes and morphometric characters of the three species of Mytilus in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres., Marine Biology, 111 (p.329)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.372)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil