Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Mytilidae > Subfamily Crenellinae > Genus Musculus

Musculus niger (J. E. Gray, 1824)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Modiola Moench

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Musculus*	Röding, 1798	accepted genus name
*Crenella (Modiolaria)*	Beck, 1838	synonym
*Modiola (Modiolarca)*	J. E. Gray, 1842	synonym
*Modiolarca*	J. E. Gray, 1842	synonym
*Modiolaria*	Lovén, 1846	synonym
*Musculus (Modiolarca)*	J. E. Gray, 1842	synonym
*Mytilus (Modiolarca)*	Gray, 1842	synonym

Species group names

*Musculus svecicus*	(O. Fabricius, 1788)	synonym
*Mytilus discors svecicus*	O. Fabricius, 1788	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: zwarte streepschelp sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: black musculus; black mussel; little black 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.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Schwarze Bohnenmuschel 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.

Japanese: クロタマエガイ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: svartskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: svartskjel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: Мускулус черный

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Musculus niger (J. E. Gray, 1824). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140474