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

Musculus Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*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; alternate representation
*Mytilus (Modiolarca)*	Gray, 1842	synonym

Children

Musculus coenobitus (Vaillant, 1865)
Musculus costulatus (Risso, 1826)
Musculus discors (Linnaeus, 1767)
Musculus glacialis (Leche, 1883)
Musculus niger (J. E. Gray, 1824)
Musculus subpictus (Cantraine, 1835)
Musculus viridulus (H. Adams, 1871)

Literature

original description	Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.
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.
subsequent type designation	Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 417-497.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Musculus Röding, 1798. 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:138225