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Mytilus

Black Mussels

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 138228 ↗

18

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1870

First collected

1948

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Mytilus, most mentions first.

  1. 2004

    The assessment of hull fouling as a mechanism for the introduction and dispersal of marine alien species in the main Hawaiian Islands

    Godwin, L.S., Eldredge, L.G. & Gaut, K. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 4 pages

  2. 1999

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Part 2: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & L.G. Eldredge, eds · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  3. 1998

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1998: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  4. 2002

    Numbers of Hawaiian species for 2000

    Eldredge, L.G. & N.L. Evenhuis · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species in Kane‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 1997

    Catalog and bibliography of the nonindigenous nonmarine snails and slugs of the Hawaiian Islands

    Cowie, R.H. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 1996

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 1996: Supplement

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1870s1940s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1870 by Joseph Swift Emerson; Joseph Swift Emerson (Virginia; Norfolk).

From the collection

Mytilus, 196947Mytilus, 260419Mytilus, 5716Mytilus, 66307Mytilus, 260420Mytilus, 156620Mytilus, 196790Mytilus, 198575Mytilus, 201493Mytilus, 201494Mytilus, 201495Mytilus, 201496