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CAAB Taxon Code: 23 220001
Scientific Name and Authority: Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups - Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family: 23 220 Mytilidae (mussels)    show full list

Common Name: blue mussel
Suggested Indexable Form: mussel, blue
Common Names List: blue mussel; Mediterranean mussel
Standard (Commercial) Name(s): Blue Mussel
FAO Name: Australian mussel

Organism Type: a mussel

Other names used in Australia: Mytilus edulis; Mytilus edulis planulatus; Mytilus planulatus; Mytilus galloprovincialis planulatus; Mytilus edulis aoteanus; Mytilus aoteanus

Taxon Notes: This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 652001 (FISHLIST 652001).
Scientific Name Notes: This species has been known under several names in Australia, including Mytilus edulis and M. planulatus. There is some question as to the valid name, although recent genetic studies indicate that the Australian form is closer to M. galloprovincialis than any other (see Beu (2004)). Some workers recognise the Australian form as a subspecies, M. galloprovincialis planulatus.
Common/Standard Name Notes:

Parent Codes (if any):
   23 220000 .. Mytilidae - undifferentiated .. mussels
Child Codes (if any):
Previous Codes (if any):
  00 652001, 652001, 23 220002

ITIS (USA) identifier for this taxon: 79456

Taxon status (on CAAB list):
   Taxon on current Australian list: Yes
   Taxon on commercial species list: Yes
   Taxon on Standard Fish Names List: Yes

Record source:
   Lamprell, K.; Healy, J., 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden.

Scientific Name verified against:
   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(2): 111-265.

On-line resources for this taxon:

Australian Faunal Directory