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

MytilusLinnaeus, 1758accepted 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.

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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

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