Mytilus

Mytilus est cosmopolitum genus edulium aquae salsae familiae Mytilidarum molluscorum bivalvium quae magnitudine a media ad magnam crescunt.A. W. B. Powell, New Zealand Mollusca (Aucopoli: William Collins Publishers Ltd,1979), ISBN 0-00-216906-1.

Species
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 

Usus humanus
Mytilus late pro cibo et in maricultura adhibetur. Exempli gratia, in California, Mytili a litoralibus Indis Americanis paene 12 000 annos consumpti sunt.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.

Notae


 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." Marine Biology 111: 323–33. 

Categoria:Genera animalium
Categoria:Mytilinae
Categoria:Taxa Linnaei
Categoria:Taxa 1798