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

Mytilopsis Conrad, 1858

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831)

Literature

original description

Conrad, T. A. (1857). Description of a new genus of the family Dreissenidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 9: 167.

basis of record

Vinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp.

status source

Bank, R. A. (2011). Authorships and publication dates in malacology: some notes on the 2011 French Checklist of Welter-Schultes & al. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 86: 13-24. Frankfurt am Main [December].

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilopsis Conrad, 1858. 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:156885

Dr. Rafael Araujo. Mytilopsis Conrad, 1858. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/862f4325-0d2c-4204-8792-4cfe0a24a71e

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156885
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Last modified

2023-06-07 by Dr. Rafael Araujo & by Eike Neubert

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