Chilean mussel
| Chilean mussel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: | Mytilus |
| Species: | M. platensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mytilus platensis d'Orbigny, 1842 | |
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The Chilean mussel or Chilean blue mussel is a species of blue mussel native to the coasts of Chile from Biobío Region (37 ºS) to Cape Horn (55 ºS). Today genomic evidence confirmed that the native Chilean blue mussel is genetically distinct from the Northern Hemisphere M. edulis, M. galloprovincialis and M. trossulus and also genetically different from Mytilus platensis, the other species of smooth shelled mussel from South America.
Right and left valve of the same specimen:
- Right valve
- Left valve
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