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Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Mytilidae
Family recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from EOL Mollusca Patch
Mytilidae
Recognized by Jordan Species List, Egypt Species List, Larvae of Hydrothermal Vents, INBio, INBio, IABIN, Literature body sizes, bivalves, Moorea Biocode, Moorea Biocode, Algeria Species List, Angola Species List, Austria Species List, Azerbaijan Species List, Antigua and Barbuda Species List, Bailiwick of Jersey Species List, Australia Species List, Belize Species List, Bermuda Species List, Belgium Species List, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Bonaire Saint Eustatius and Saba Species List, Brazil Species List, Bulgaria Species List, Cambodia Species List, Cameroon Species List, Canada Species List, Cape Verde Species List, Cayman Islands Species List, Chile Species List, China Species List, Christmas Island Species List, Cocos Islands Species List, Colombia Species List, Costa Rica Species List, Croatia Species List, Cyprus Species List, Czech Republic Species List, Denmark Species List, Dominican Republic Species List, Ecuador Species List, Estonia Species List, Ethiopia Species List, Falkland Islands Species List, Faroe Islands Species List, Federated States of Micronesia Species List, Fiji Species List, Finland Species List, France Species List, French Polynesia Species List, Germany Species List, Ghana Species List, Gibraltar Species List, Greece Species List, Greenland Species List, Grenada Species List, Guadeloupe Species List, Guam Species List, Guatemala Species List, Guernsey Species List, Guyana Species List, Haiti Species List, Hong Kong Species List, Hungary Species List, Iceland Species List, India Species List, Iran Species List, Ireland Species List, Isle of Man Species List, Israel Species List, Italy Species List, Jamaica Species List, Kazakhstan Species List, Kenya Species List, Kyrgyzstan Species List, Laos Species List, Libya Species List, Lithuania Species List, Luxembourg Species List, Madagascar Species List, Malaysia Species List, Maldives Species List, Malta Species List, Mariana Islands Species List, Mauritius Species List, Moldova Species List, Morocco Species List, Myanmar Species List, Namibia Species List, New Caledonia Species List, New Zealand Species List, Nicaragua Species List, Niue Species List, Norfolk Island Species List, Norway Species List, Oman Species List, Pakistan Species List, Palau Species List, Panama Species List, Papua New Guinea Species List, Peru Species List, Philippines Species List, Poland Species List, Portugal Species List, Puerto Rico Species List, Reunion Species List, Romania Species List, Russia Species List, Saint Kitts and Nevis Species List, Saint Martin Species List, Saudi Arabia Species List, Senegal Species List, Serbia Species List, Seychelles Species List, Singapore Species List, Slovenia Species List, South Korea Species List, South Africa Species List, Spain Species List, Sweden Species List, Switzerland Species List, Taiwan Species List, Tanzania Species List, Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Thailand Species List, The Bahamas Species List, The Netherlands Species List, Tibet Species List, Sri Lanka Species List, Tonga Species List, Tunisia Species List, Turkey Species List, Ukraine Species List, United Arab Emirates Species List, United Kingdom Species List, Venezuela Species List, Vietnam Species List, Uruguay Species List, US Virgin Islands Species List, Vanuatu Species List, Yemen Species List, Argentina Species List, Japan Species List, Cuba Species List, Indonesia Species List, Mexico Species List, Alboran Sea Species List, Andaman Sea Species List, Arabian Sea Species List, Arafura Sea Species List, Baffin Bay Species List, Balearic Sea Species List, Bali Sea Species List, Arctic Ocean Species List, Banda Sea Species List, Barents Sea Species List, Bay of Biscay Species List, Bay of Bengal Species List, Bay of Fundy Species List, Beaufort Sea Species List, Bering Sea Species List, Bass Strait Species List, Bismarck Sea Species List, Black Sea Species List, Bristol Channel Species List, Caribbean Sea Species List, Celebes Sea Species List, Celtic Sea Species List, Chukchi Sea Species List, Coral Sea Species List, Davis Strait Species List, East Siberian Sea Species List, Eastern China Sea Species List, English Channel Species List, Flores Sea Species List, Great Australian Bight Species List, Greenland Sea Species List, Gulf of Aden Species List, Gulf of Alaska Species List, Gulf of Aqaba Species List, Gulf of Bothnia Species List, Gulf of California Species List, Gulf of Finland Species List, Gulf of Guinea Species List, Gulf of Mexico Species List, Gulf of St Lawrence Species List, Gulf of Suez Species List, Gulf of Tomini Species List, Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Species, Gulf of Thailand Species List, Indian Ocean Species List, Ionian Sea Species List, Irish Sea Species List, Java Sea Species List, Kara Sea Species List, Labrador Sea Species List, Laccadive Sea Species List, Laptev Sea Species List, Kattegat Species List, Ligurian Sea Species List, Makassar Strait Species List, Malacca Strait Species List, Mozambique Channel Species List, Hudson Bay Species List, Halmahera Sea Species List, North Atlantic Species List, Molukka Sea Species List, North Pacific Species List, Northwestern Passages Species List, Norwegian Sea Species List, North Sea Species List, Persian Gulf Species List, Red Sea Species List, Rio de la Plata Species List, Sea of Japan Species List, Philippine Sea Species List, Sea of Marmara Species List, Sea of Okhostk Species List, Seto Inland Sea Species List, Singapore Strait Species List, Skagerrak Species List, Solomon Sea Species List, South China Sea Species List, White Sea Species List, Yellow Sea Species List, Tyrrhenian Sea Species List, Sulu Sea Species List, Southern Ocean Species List, Tasman Sea Species List, South Atlantic Species List, South Pacific Species List, Gulf of Oman Species List, FAO Fishery Statistics, Furui 2020, Freshwater and Marine Image Bank U Washington, GBIF national node type records France, Adriatic Sea Species List, Aegean Sea Species List, Timor Sea Species List, United States Species List, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Brusca and Brusca, 2003, and ecology literature
Mytilidae Rafinesque 1815
Family recognized by Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Alternative Names

Mytiloidea
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Trunk
? adelaidensis Tate, 1886
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? aequalis Sowerby, 1818
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? affinis Martin, 1879
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? alabamensis Aldrich, 1895
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? alabamiensis Aldrich, 1895
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? ameghinoi Ihering, 1907
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? andina Ortmann, 1900
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? arcacea Tate, 1886
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? arnoldi Clark, 1918
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? atavus Waagen, 1881
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? attenuatus Meek & Hayden, 1857
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? balcombei Pritchard, 1901
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? balongensis Martin, 1931
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? barbatiaeformis Martin, 1916
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? biochei Deshayes, 1858
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? charmesi Thomas & Peron, 1890
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? convolutus von Koenen, 1897
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? cordata Lamarck, 1807
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? corioensis Tate, 1886
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? decliva White, 1887
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? dimidiata Münster, 1841
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? eduliformis Schlotheim, 1820
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? elongatus Kossmat, 1893
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? euglyphus Woods, 1922
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? extensus Lutkevitch & Lobanova, 1960
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? flagelliferus Forbes, 1846
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? fountainensis Weller, 1916
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? frugi Healey, 1908
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? galpiniana Evans & Shumard, 1854
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? glabrata Dunker, 1846
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? globularis Tate, 1886
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? hillana Sowerby, 1818
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? hollicki Brown, 1905
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? imbricata Sowerby, 1818
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? incurva Conrad, 1839
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? inflexus von Koenen, 1897
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? jaworskii Wanner & Knipscheer, 1951
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? laitmairensis de Loriol, 1883
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? latecaudatus Pritchard, 1903
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? ligeriensis d'Orbigny, 1844
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? mandannaense Lees, 1934
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? mathewsoni Gabb, 1869
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? minima Sowerby, 1818
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? mississippiensis Conrad, 1848
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? nasai Kobayashi & Ichikawa, 1950
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? nuculaeformis Nyst & Hon, 1862
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? ornatus d'Orbigny, 1844
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? paronai Bittner, 1895
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? pectinata Lemarck, 1801
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? perplicatus Etallon, 1863
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? plicifera von Koenen, 1897
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? praelongus d'Orbigny, 1843
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? primulafontensis Etheridge, 1902
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? progoensis Martin, 1916
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? pygmaea Philippi, 1843
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? regularis Barrande, 1881
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? rimosus Lamarck, 1805
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? salzstettensis Hohenstein, 1913
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? samiri Abbass, 1962
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? scalprum Sowerby, 1821
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? schafhaeutli Stur, 1851
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? schencki Hanna & Hertlein, 1938
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? simplex Sowerby, 1850
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? solenoides Morris & Lycett, 1853
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? somaliensis Cox, 1935
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? strajeskianus d'Orbigny, 1845
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? subangustissima Dacque, 1905
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? subfragilis d'Orbigny, 1847
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? subsimplex d'Orbigny, 1850
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? tigrensis Blanford, 1870
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? toechophora Boettger, 1883
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? tubicola Wood, 1861
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? typicus Forbes, 1846
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? verticordia Wood, 1840
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? vineyardensis Brown, 1905
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? virginica Conrad, 1867
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? waverliensis Herrick, 1888
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
? wrighti Warren, 1934
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Acroperna
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Antetrichomya Iredale 1951
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Aulacomya Steinmann 1881
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Botulopsis Reis 1926
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Hilgardella Stephenson 1957
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Hormomosa
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Lecompteus Van de Poel 1959
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Mytiloidea
Perna Retzius 1788
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Planctomya
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Steinmannia Fischer 1886
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Striomodiolus Badve & Nayak 1984
Doubtful according to GBIF classification
Xenomytilus Squires & Saul 2006
Doubtful according to GBIF classification

Common Names

Arabic

بلحيات البحر البحرية preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Armenian

միդիաներ preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Basque

mitilido preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Belarusian

мідыі preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Bulgarian

Морски миди preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Chinese

贻贝科 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Dutch; Flemish

Mossels e.a. preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Finnish

sinisimpukat preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

German

Miesmuscheln preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Guarani

Tamba preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Hungarian

kékkagylófélék preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Japanese

イガイ科 preferred
Recognized by Furui 2020 and Wikidata Common Names

Kazakh

Мидиялар preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Kirghiz; Kyrgyz

Мидия preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Latvian

Ēdamgliemeņu dzimta preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Lithuanian

Midijos preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Min Dong

Dâng-chái preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Persian

دوکفه‌ای‌های میتیلیدا preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Polish

omułkowate preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan

midie preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Russian

мидии preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Swedish

Blåmusslor preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Ukrainian

мідієві preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Arz

بلحيات البحر البحريه preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Yue

淡菜 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Zh Cn

贻贝科 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Zh Tw

貽貝科 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
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Curated hierarchies for Mytilidae

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Spiralia
Mollusca
Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758
Autobranchia Grobben 1894
Pteriomorphia Beurlen 1944

GBIF classification

Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae (this page)

World Register of Marine Species

Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae (this page)