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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)
> planulatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Crassimytilus Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
=Eumytilus Ihering, 1900
=Pacifimytilus Kafanov, 1984
Synonymised Names:
=Mytilus angustanus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus corneus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus dunkeri Reeve, 1857 sensu Angas, 1867
=Mytilus edulis aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus lacunatus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus obscurus Dunker, 1857
=Mytilus paetelianus Clessin, 1887
=Mytilus ungularis Lamarck, 1819
Images: Mytilus planulatus Lamarck, 1819
Bay of Islands, Northland, NZ. 68mm. © rights reserved
Among seaweed, Auckland, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MYTILIDAE: MYTILINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Mytilida (Order)
> Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
> Mytilidae (Family)
> Mytilinae (Subfamily)
> Mytilus (Genus)
> planulatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Crassimytilus Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979
=Eumytilus Ihering, 1900
=Pacifimytilus Kafanov, 1984
Synonymised Names:
=Mytilus angustanus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus corneus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus dunkeri Reeve, 1857 sensu Angas, 1867
=Mytilus edulis aoteanus Powell, 1958
=Mytilus lacunatus Lamarck, 1819
=Mytilus obscurus Dunker, 1857
=Mytilus paetelianus Clessin, 1887
=Mytilus ungularis Lamarck, 1819
Details: Mytilus planulatus Lamarck, 1819
Size/Grows to:
Length 150mm, Width 63mm
Distribution:
Kermadec, North, South, Stewart, Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands, from 0-42m
Notes:
Blue Mussel, Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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)
  • 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)
  • 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. 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)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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