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

Mytilus trossulus A. Gould, 1850

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mytilus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Mytulus*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Mytilus californianus*	Conrad, 1837	taxonomically included in
*Mytilus edulis*	Linnaeus, 1758	taxonomically included in
*Mytilus galloprovincialis*	Lamarck, 1819	taxonomically included in
*Mytilus trossulus*	A. Gould, 1850	taxonomically included in

Species group names

*Mytilus edulis kussakini*	Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: foolish mussel; northern bay mussel; Northern blue mussel; Pacific blue mussel sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);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.;Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.

German: Pazifische Miesmuschel 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: キタノムラサキイガイ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: Мидия тихоокеанская

Literature

original description	Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348.
basis of record	Gittenberger, A. & Gittenberger, E. (2021). Polytypic Mytilus edulis, with a name for the Baltic subspecies (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Basteria. 85(2): 116-125.
additional source	Väinölä, R.; Strelkov, P. (2011). Mytilus trossulus in Northern Europe. Marine Biology. 158: 817-833.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	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	Iwasaki, K.; Ishida, S.; Baba, T.; Kuwahara, Y. (2017). Records of Mytilus trossulus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) and Its Possible. Distribution along the Northern and Central. Japan Sea Coast of Honshu Island. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 75 (1-4): 67-81.
additional source	Rawson, P. D.; Hayhurst, S.; Vanscoyoc, B. (2001). Species composition of blue mussel in the northeastern Gulf of Maine. Journal of Shellfish Research. (1): 31-38.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilus trossulus A. Gould, 1850. 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:140482