MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Mytilus cinnamomeus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3352; note: based on Chemnitz (1786), vol. 8, p. 152, pl. 82 fig. 731; in synonymy of Mytilus lithophagus but made availale by usage as a valid name by Schreibers (1793) and others [details]
basis of record
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]