Mytilus
Appearance
Classis : Bivalvia
Subclassis : Pteriomorphia
Ordo : Mytiloida
Familia : Mytilidae
Subfamilia : Mytilinae
Genus : Mytilus
Linnaeus, 1798
Subclassis : Pteriomorphia
Ordo : Mytiloida
Familia : Mytilidae
Subfamilia : Mytilinae
Genus : Mytilus
Linnaeus, 1798
Subdivisiones: Species
Vide commentarium.


Mytilus est cosmopolitum genus edulium aquae salsae familiae Mytilidarum molluscorum bivalvium quae magnitudine a media ad magnam crescunt.[1]
Species
[recensere | fontem recensere]Inter species intra genus Mytilum sunt:
- Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837
- Mytilus coruscus Gould, 1861
- "Mytilus edulis complex":
- Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
- Mytilus edulis platensis d'Orbigny, 1846 = Mytilus chilensis (Hupé, 1854)
- Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819
- Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850
- Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Usus humanus
[recensere | fontem recensere]Mytilus late pro cibo et in maricultura adhibetur. Exempli gratia, in California, Mytili a litoralibus Indis Americanis paene 12 000 annos consumpti sunt.[2]
Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]![]() |
Vide "Mytilus" apud Vicispecies. |
- ↑ A. W. B. Powell, New Zealand Mollusca (Aucopoli: William Collins Publishers Ltd,1979), ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- ↑ Jon M. Erlandson, T. C. Rick, T. J. Braje, A. Steinberg, et R. L.Vellanoweth (2008), "Human Impacts on Ancient Shellfish: A 10,000 Year Record from San Miguel Island, California," Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 2144–52.
- "Mytilus". apud Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- J. H. McDonald, R. Seed and R.K. Koehn (1991) "Allozymes and morphometric characters of three species of Mytilus in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres."[nexus deficit] Marine Biology 111: 323–33.