Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Modiola patagonica Hanley, 1843, Modiola pseudocapensis Lamy, 1931, Modiolus (Modiolus) nonuranus Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935, Modiolus nonuranus Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935, Modiolus patagonicus (d'Orbigny, 1846), Mytilus algosus Gould, 1850, Mytilus angustanus Lamarck, 1819 sensu Reeve, 1858, Mytilus cuneiformis Reeve, 1857, Mytilus dactyliformis Hupé, 1854, Mytilus patagonicus d'Orbigny, 1846, Mytilus similis Clessin, 1887 (uncertain synonym; invalid: junior homonym of Mytilus similis Münster, 1841), Mytilus splendens Dunker, 1857, Semimytilus algosus (Gould, 1850), Semimytilus pseudocapensis (Lamy, 1931) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

• Stearns, R.E.C. (1893) Scientific results of explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross". No. XXV - Report on the mollusk-fauna of the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16: 353-450.
• Bernard, F.R. (1983) Catalogue of the living Bivalvia of the eastern Pacific Ocean: Bering Strait to Cape Horn. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa, 102 pp.
• Marincovich, L. (1973) Intertidal mollusks of Iquique, Chile. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Bulletin 16: 1-49.
• Olsson, A.A. (1961) Mollusks of the Tropical Eastern Pacific, particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal Province (Panama to Peru). Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, 574 pp.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.