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Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848)

216616  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216616)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Mytilida (Order)
  8. Mytiloidea (Superfamily)
  9. Mytilidae (Family)
  10. Brachidontinae (Subfamily)
  11. Brachidontes (Genus)
  12. Brachidontes variabilis (Species)
accepted
Species
Brachyodontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted (misspelled generic name)
Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted (original combination: declared...)  
original combination: declared nomen protectum by Cosel et al. (2014)
Mytilus variabilis striata [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling of Mytilus variabilis...)  
misspelling of Mytilus variabilis var. semistriata Krauss, 1848
Mytilus variabilis var. semistriata Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Mytilus...)  
junior homonym of Mytilus semistriatus d'Orbigny, 1844
Perna variabilis (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted (unaccepted generic combination)
marine
(of Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 25-26, pl. 2 fig. 5 [details] 
Type locality contained in Natal  
type locality contained in Natal [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Nomenclature A recent molecular study (Sirna Terranova, Lo Brutto, Arculeo & Mitton, 2007) reveals that the Red Sea and Mediterranean...  
Nomenclature A recent molecular study (Sirna Terranova, Lo Brutto, Arculeo & Mitton, 2007) reveals that the Red Sea and Mediterranean populations, the East African populations and a population from Hong Kong represent three cryptic species of Brachidontes. This implies separating the Red Sea B. pharaonis from the East African B. variabilis and using both names. Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848 is a primary homonym of Mytilus variabilis Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 but Cosel et al. (2014) declared the former nomen protectum and the latter (a subjective junior synonym of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758), nomen oblitum.
A still older name is Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819, which is used by Huber (2010) for the whole complex. There is currently an established usage of the name Brachidontes ustulatus for a Western Australian species, and in view of the findings of Sirna Terranova et al., all three names (ustulatus, variabilis and pharaonis) are here listed as "accepted". [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216616 on 2024-11-24
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1997-02-22 16:55:09Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-12 09:16:46Z
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Garcia, Maria
2011-10-07 23:42:53Z
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Rosenberg, Gary
2012-03-08 21:04:46Z
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Gofas, Serge
2012-07-05 23:43:01Z
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Rosenberg, Gary
2014-03-04 16:00:58Z
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Gofas, Serge

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original description (of Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 25-26, pl. 2 fig. 5 [details] 

original description (of Mytilus variabilis var. semistriata Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 26 [details] 

taxonomy source Sirna Terranova M., Lo Brutto S., Arculeo M. & Mitton J.B. 2007. A mitochondrial phylogeography of <i>Brachidontes variabilis</i> (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) reveals three cryptic species. <i>Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research</i>, 45(4): 289–298. [details] 

basis of record Taylor, J. D. (1971). Intertidal Zonation at Aldabra Atoll. <em>Phil. Trns. Roy. Soc. Lond. B.</em> 260:173-213. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Tan, S. H. M.; Wells, F. E.; Lukehurst, S. S.; Strong, E. E.; Sanpanich, K.; Duangdee, T.; Ambarwati, R.; Tan, K. S. (2024). Unravelling the <i>Brachidontes variabilis</i> species complex (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) of the Indo-Pacific region. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 90(4): Published online 5 November., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae037 [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Nomenclature A recent molecular study (Sirna Terranova, Lo Brutto, Arculeo & Mitton, 2007) reveals that the Red Sea and Mediterranean populations, the East African populations and a population from Hong Kong represent three cryptic species of Brachidontes. This implies separating the Red Sea B. pharaonis from the East African B. variabilis and using both names. Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848 is a primary homonym of Mytilus variabilis Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 but Cosel et al. (2014) declared the former nomen protectum and the latter (a subjective junior synonym of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758), nomen oblitum.
A still older name is Mytilus ustulatus Lamarck, 1819, which is used by Huber (2010) for the whole complex. There is currently an established usage of the name Brachidontes ustulatus for a Western Australian species, and in view of the findings of Sirna Terranova et al., all three names (ustulatus, variabilis and pharaonis) are here listed as "accepted". [details]
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English variable mussel  [details]
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Brachyodontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) (from synonym Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachidontes semistriatus) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachidontes variabilis) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848))
To GenBank (59 nucleotides; 33 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Mytilus variabilis Krauss, 1848)
To PESI (from synonym Mytilus variabilis striata [sic])
To PESI (from synonym Mytilus variabilis var. semistriata Krauss, 1848)
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