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Taxon: Genus Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758 (mollusc)

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Authorship

SN2000 author citation	:			C. Linnaeus, 1758
Original name, rank & spelling	:			Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 704.

Types

Type of	:	*Mytilida* (Order) Férussac, 1822		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Type of	:	*Mytilidae* (Family) Rafinesque, 1815		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Type of	:	*Mytilina* (Suborder) Férussac, 1822		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Type of	:	*Mytilinae* (Subfamily) Rafinesque, 1815		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Type of	:	*Mytiloidea* (Superfamily) Rafinesque, 1815		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]	:	*Mytilus* (Subgenus) Linnaeus, 1758		Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 345. [inferred]
Type	:	*Mytilus edulis* Linnaeus, 1758

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