WoRMS taxon details
Brachidontes darwinianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
505980 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505980)
accepted
Species
Mytilus darwinianus A. d'Orbigny, 1846 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Mytilus muelleri Dunker, 1875 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mytilus mülleri Dunker, 1875 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Mytilus darwinianus A. d'Orbigny, 1846) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 643-644; 709 [1846]; pl. 84 figs 30-33 [1847] [details]
page(s): 643-644; 709 [1846]; pl. 84 figs 30-33 [1847] [details]
Type locality contained in Brazilian part of the South Atlantic...
type locality contained in Brazilian part of the South Atlantic Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in Patagonia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in Patagonia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Brachidontes darwinianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505980 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mytilus darwinianus A. d'Orbigny, 1846) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 643-644; 709 [1846]; pl. 84 figs 30-33 [1847] [details]
original description (of Mytilus muelleri Dunker, 1875) Dunker, W. (1875). Ueber Conchylien von Desterro, Provinz Sta. Catharina, Brasilien. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 2: 240–254., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27002880
page(s): 250-251 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 116 [details]
page(s): 643-644; 709 [1846]; pl. 84 figs 30-33 [1847] [details]
original description (of Mytilus muelleri Dunker, 1875) Dunker, W. (1875). Ueber Conchylien von Desterro, Provinz Sta. Catharina, Brasilien. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 2: 240–254., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27002880
page(s): 250-251 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 116 [details]
Other
additional source
Trovant B., Ruzzante D.E., Basso N.G. & Orensanz J.M. (2013) Distinctness, phylogenetic relations and biogeography of intertidal mussels (<i>Brachidontes</i>, Mytilidae) from the south-western Atlantic. <i>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom</i> 93(7): 1843-1855., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315413000477 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Conchology (Brachidontes darwinianus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachidontes darwinianus)
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Mytilus darwinianus d'Orbigny, 1842; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2228947) (from synonym Mytilus darwinianus A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Conchology (Brachidontes darwinianus)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brachidontes darwinianus)
To GenBank (55 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Mytilus darwinianus d'Orbigny, 1842; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:2228947) (from synonym Mytilus darwinianus A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
