Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Dreissenoidea > Family Dreissenidae > Subfamily Dreisseninae > Genus Dreissena

Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dreissena*	van Beneden, 1835	accepted genus name
*Dreissensia*	P. Fischer, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Mytilus polymorpha*	Pallas, 1771	objective synonym
*Mytulus polymorphus*	Pallas, 1771	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: vandremusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone driehoeksmossel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: many-shaped dreissena; zebra mussel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Dreiecksmuschel; Dreikantmuschel; Wandermuschel sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: vandrarmussla

Literature

basis of record	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Ludyanskiy, M. L. (1994). A nomenclatural review of Dreissena (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae), with identification of the Quagga Mussel as Dreissena bugensis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 51 (7): 1474-1484.
additional source	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.
additional source	Biggs, H. E. J. (1971). Mollusca of the Iranian Plateau–III. Journal of Conchology. 27 (4): 211-220. London [29 April].
additional source	InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org).
additional source	Mörch, O. A. L. (1867). Remarks on the history of Dreissena polymorpha. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 3. 19(110): 82-84.
additional source	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
additional source	Issel, A. (1865). Catalogo dei molluschi raccolti dalla missione italiana in Persia aggiuntavi la descrizione delle specie nuove o poco note. Stamperia Reale, Torino, 55 pp, pls 1-3.
additional source	Martens, E. von. (1865). Über die einwanderung der Dreissena polymorpha in Deutschland. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1865: 5.