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Mytilus edulis

Bay Mussel

marine

Linnaeus, 1758Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 140480 ↗

19

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1869

First collected

1976

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

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

Two centuries of collecting

1860s1970s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1869 by Joseph Swift Emerson; Joseph Swift Emerson (Massachusetts; Nahant).

From the collection

Mytilus edulis, 65517Mytilus edulis, 65518Mytilus edulis, 260387Mytilus edulis, 196599Mytilus edulis, 196713Mytilus edulis, 196792Mytilus edulis, 196805Mytilus edulis, 196891Mytilus edulis, 196892Mytilus edulis, 196893Mytilus edulis, 252166Mytilus edulis, 260386