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Molluscs of Tasmania

Mytilidae: Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 (‘Mediterranean blue mussel’)

Synonym(s): galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819.
Typical shell-length 100 mm. Shell is typically blue-black, but can be pale brown, especially when young. Lives intertidally amongst rocks and seaweed, usually in aggregations, especially on moderately exposed shores. Non-native. Occurs in southeastern and southwestern Australia (NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA); other subspecies are found elsewhere in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. In Tasmanian waters, this species has become widespead especially in sheltered waters; commercially harvested for food. It has widely interbred with the native blue mussel.

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Pteriomorphia
Order: Mytiloida
Superfamily: Mytiloidea
Family: Mytilidae
Genus: Mytilus

A-L Localities for Mytilus galloprovincialis

Ansons Bay
Bangor: Lagoon Bay
Bangor: Two Mile Beach
Bathurst Channel: Balmoral Beach
Bathurst Channel: Schooner Cove
Bathurst Channel: Wombat Cove
Bathurst Harbour
Beaumaris: Shelly Point
Beerbarrel Beach
Bellerive Beach
Bicheno: Courland Bay
Bicheno: Diamond Island
Bicheno: Redbill Beach
Bicheno: Rice Beach
Bicheno: Waubs Beach
Bicheno: Waubs Gulch
Binalong Bay
Binalong Bay: beach
Binalong Bay: Dora Point
Binalong Bay: gulches
Binalong Bay: Jeanneret Beach
Blackman Bay: Little Chinaman Bay
Blackman Bay: Porpoise Hole
Blackman Bay (unlocalised)
Blackmans Bay
Black River Beach: northern end
Black River Beach: southern end
Boat Harbour: beach
Boltons Beach
Bridport: beach
Bridport: East Sandy Point
Bridport: Lades Beach
Brooks Bay: White Bluff
Bruny Island: Isthmus Bay
Bruny Island: Neck Beach
Bruny Island (unlocalised)
Burnie: foreshore
Burnie (unlocalised)
Calverts Beach & Goats Bluff
Cape Portland: Lemons Beach
Cape Portland: Petal Point
Carlton Beach: Spectacle Island
Carlton: Park Beach
Chain of Lagoons
Chain of Lagoons: Four Mile Creek: beach
Chain of Lagoons: Piccaninny Point
Charlotte Cove
Clarke Island: Black Point – beach to S
Clarke Island: Shevo Bay (north end)
Clifton Beach (unlocalised)
Clifton Beach: western end
Cockle Creek Bay
Coles Bay: Bluestone Bay
Coles Bay: foreshore
Coles Bay: Gravelly Beach & Sleepy Bay
Coles Bay: Honeymoon Bay
Coles Bay: Parsons Cove
Coles Bay: Richardsons Beach
Coles Bay (unlocalised)
Coningham Beach
Coningham: foreshore
Connellys Bay
Cox Bight (unlocalised)
Cremorne: foreshore
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Head to Cape Deslacs
Cremorne: Pipe Clay Lagoon
Croppies Beach: northern end
Curtis Island
Davey River: Carvers Point
Deephole Bay
Denison Beach: Porch Rocks
Denison Beach (unlocalised)
Derwent channel
Derwent Estuary: ACMA Asterias survey Stn 20
Devonport: Coles Beach
Devonport: Don Heads
Devonport: Mersey River
Dianas Beach (unlocalised)
Dodges Ferry: Okines Beach
Dodges Ferry: Red Ochre Beach
Dover: beach
Dover: Kents Beach
Dover: Roaring Bay Beach
Dover (unlocalised)
Droughty Point
Dunalley Bay
Dunalley (unlocalised)
Eaglehawk Neck: eastern side
Eaglehawk Neck: western side
Earlham: foreshore
East Devonport: beach & breakwater
East Devonport: Berth 1
East Devonport: Moorland Beach
East Devonport: Pardoe Beach
East Devonport: Pardoe Point
East Ulverstone
East Ulverstone: Buttons Beach
E coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Eddystone Point (unlocalised)
Electrona: Peggys Beach
Falmouth: foreshore
Falmouth: Mariposa Beach
Flinders Island: Beach S of Big River Road
Flinders Island: Foochow Beach
Flinders Island: Foochow Inlet
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie: foreshore
Flinders Island: Lady Barron: Watering Beach
Flinders Island: Northeast River: mouth
Flinders Island: Palana Beach
Flinders Island: Patriarch Beach
Flinders Island: The Dock
Fortescue Bay
Frederick Henry Bay: Sloping Island
Freycinet Peninsula: Bryans Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Cooks Beach
Freycinet Peninsula: Hazards Beach
Freycinet Peninsula (unlocalised)
Freycinet Peninsula: Wineglass Bay
Friendly Beaches
Garden Island Sands
Georges Bay: Akaroa: foreshore
Georges Bay: Blanche Point
Georges Bay: Burns Bay
Georges Bay: Moulting Bay: Bayview
Georges Bay: Moulting Bay (unlocalised)
Georges Bay: St Helens: foreshore
Georges Bay: St Helens (unlocalised)
Georges Bay (unlocalised)
Glenorchy: Cornelian Bay
Gordon: Three Hut Point
Great Musselroe Bay
Greens Beach: main beach
Hawley Beach: foreshore towards Point Sorell
Hellyer Beach
Herlihys Bay: coast to E
Hobart: ANM wharf area
Hobart: Battery Point
Hobart: Sandy Bay: Long Beach to Blinking Billy Point
Hobart: Sandy Bay (unlocalised)
Hobart: Sullivans Cove area
Hobart (unlocalised)
Howden: foreshore
Howrah Beach
Huon Estuary: Woodstock
Ida Bay (unlocalised)
Kettering foreshore
Kettering: Oyster Cove
Kettering: Trial Bay
King Island: Grassy Harbour
Kingston Beach
Kingston: Boronia Beach
Koonya: Newmans Beach
Koonya: Shelly Beach
Lauderdale: Bambra Reef
Lauderdale: Ralphs Bay
Lauderdale: Roches Beach
Lauderdale: Seven Mile Beach
Leith: foreshore
Leith: Lillico Beach
Leven River: mouth
Lewisham (unlocalised)
Lime Bay
Lime Bay: Black Rock: beach
Lime Bay: Green Head
Lindisfarne: foreshore
Little Coningham Beach
Little Musselroe Bay: Lyme Regis Lagoon
Little Musselroe Bay: northern end
Little Musselroe Bay: Tree Point area
Little Peggs Beach
Little Swanport: Saltworks Beach
Lobster Point
Louisa Bay
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lymington: Copper Alley Bay
Lymington: Drip Beach

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M-Z Localities for Mytilus galloprovincialis

Margate: Dru Point & Nierinna Creek mouth
Maria Island: Bloodstone Beach
Maria Island: Bloodstone Point
Maria Island: Chinamans Bay
Maria Island: Coxswain Creek: foreshore
Maria Island: Darlington Bay
Maria Island: Encampment Cove
Maria Island: Fossil Cliffs
Maria Island: Four Mile Beach
Maria Island: Gulls Nest Point
Maria Island: Hopground Beach
Maria Island: Howells Point & Painted Cliffs
Maria Island: Oyster Bay
Maria Island: Return Point
Maria Island: Shoal Bay: McRaes Isthmus
Maria Island: Soldiers Beach
Maria Island: Trigonia Corner
Marion Bay: Bream Creek foreshore
Marion Bay: northern beaches
Marion Bay (unlocalised)
Marrawah: Green Point Beach
Mayfield Beach to Mayfield Point
Mayfield Point to Little Christmas Island
Middleton: foreshore
Monk Bay
Murdunna: Duck Creek Beach
Murdunna: Sommers Beach
Musselroe Point
Narawntapu: Bakers Beach
Narawntapu: Griffiths Point
New Harbour
Nine Mile Beach & Dolphin Sands
North Bruny Island: Apollo Bay
North Bruny Island: Barnes Bay
North Bruny Island: Bull Bay
North Bruny Island: Dennes Point
North Bruny Island: Ford Bay
North Bruny Island: Great Bay: Smoothys Point
North Bruny Island: Killora Bay
North Bruny Island: Killora: Rat Bay
North Bruny Island: Little Fancy Bay
North Bruny Island: Miles Beach
North Bruny Island: Nebraska Beach
North Bruny Island: Quarantine Bay
North Bruny Island: Roberts Point
North Bruny Island: Sandgrove Point
North coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
Northdown Beach
Nubeena: White Beach
Ocean Beach
Opossum Bay: The Spit & Shelly Beach
Orford: East Shelly Beach
Orford: Emerald Beach
Orford: Luther Point
Orford: Millingtons Beach
Orford: Raspins Beach
Orford: Shelly Beach (unlocalised)
Orford: Spring Beach
Orford (unlocalised)
Orford: West Shelly Beach
Peggs Beach (unlocalised)
Peggs Beach: western end
Petcheys Bay
Pirates Bay: Fossil Island
Pirates Bay: The Blowhole
Pirates Bay (unlocalised)
Pittwater Bluff: foreshore to W
Pitt Water (unlocalised)
Planters Beach to Fishers Point
Port Arthur: Denmans Cove
Port Arthur: Little Possum Beach
Port Arthur: Point Puer & beach
Port Arthur: Safety Cove
Port Cygnet: Cray Point
Port Cygnet: Sandrock Bay
Port Davey: Bond Bay
Port Davey: Bramble Cove
Port Davey: Hannant Inlet
Port Davey (unlocalised)
Port Esperance: Hawkers Green
Port Esperance: Stringers Cove
Port Latta: Cowrie Point
Port Sorell (unlocalised)
Premaydena: Impression Bay
Primrose Beach to Carlton Bluff
Primrose Sands
Ralphs Bay: Maria Point
Ralphs Bay (unlocalised)
Randalls Bay
Ransons Beach
Rheban Beach
Robbins Island: East Beach
Rocky Cape: Castle Rock Bay
Rocky Cape: Cave Bay
Rocky Cape: foreshore N of Picnic Beach
Rocky Cape: Forwards Beach
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
Rocky Cape: Picnic Beach & rocks to S
Rocky Cape (unlocalised)
Rokeby Beach
Saltwater River: Coal Mines beach
Sandford: Haynes Point
Sandy Bay: Nutgrove Beach
Scamander (unlocalised)
Scamander: Wrinklers Beach
Schouten Island: Crocketts Bay
Schouten Island: Moreys Bay
Schouten Island: Sandspit Point
Shearwater: Freers Beach
Ship Stern Bluff
Sloping Lagoon: Lagoon Beach
Sloping Main Beach
Sloping Main: Black Jack Point
Snug Beach
Somerset: foreshore
Sorell: causeway
Sorell: Oaks Point
Sorell: Orielton Lagoon
South Arm: beach
South Arm: Fort Beach
South Arm: Hope Beach: southern end
South Arm: Mary Ann Beach & Gellibrand Point
South Arm Neck: northern side
South Arm: Pigeon Holes
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Cemetery Bluff
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: East Cove
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Grass Point
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: northern end
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: southern end
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay: Two Tree Point
South Bruny Island: Adventure Bay (unlocalised)
South Bruny Island: Alonnah Beach
South Bruny Island: Alonnah: Sunset Bay
South Bruny Island: Butlers Beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Bay Lagoon
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: eastern beach
South Bruny Island: Cloudy Beaches: western beach
South Bruny Island: Hen & Chickens Rocks: foreshore to E
South Bruny Island: Little Taylors Bay
South Bruny Island: Lunawanna: Daniels Bay
South Bruny Island: Mickeys Bay
South Bruny Island: Neck Beach: Blighs Rocks
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach
South Bruny Island: Old Jetty Beach: beaches to N
South Bruny Island: Sheepwash Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay
South Bruny Island: Simpsons Bay: southern end
South Cape Bay: Lion Rock: beach to SE
South Cape Bay (unlocalised)
South coast of Tasmania (unlocalised)
South Croppies Point
Southport
Southport: Big Lagoon Beach
Southport Bluff: beach
Southport: Kingfish Beach
Southport: Roaring Beach
Stanley: Anthony Beach
Stanley: Circular Head
Stanley: foreshore
Stanley: Halfmoon Bay
Stanley: Tatlows Beach
St Helens Point
Storm Bay: Betsey Island
Strahan: Macquarie Heads
Strahan: Ocean Beach
Surveyors Bay
Swansea: Coswell Beach
Swansea: Cressy Beach
Swansea: Jubilee Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach
Swansea: Kelvedon Beach: Shelly Point
Swansea: Lisdillon Beach
Swansea: Spiky Beach
Swansea (unlocalised)
Swanwick: foreshore
Tamar River: channel entrance
Tamar River: Kelso: foreshore
Taroona: Alum Cliffs
Taroona Beach
Taroona: Dixons Beach
Taroona: Hinsby Beach
Tasmania (unlocalised)
The Gardens: Cosy Corner
The Gardens: Seatons Cove
The Gardens: Swimcart Beach
The Gardens: Taylors Beach
Three Hummock Island: Sandy Spit
Tinderbox Beach
Tinderbox: Bellendena: foreshore
Tinderbox: Fishermans Haul
Tinderbox: Fossil Cove
Tinderbox: Piersons Point
Tranmere: foreshore
Triabunna: Plain Place Beach
Triabunna (unlocalised)
Trial Harbour
Tunnel Bay
Turners Beach
Verona Sands
Walker Island
West Devonport: Berth 3
Weymouth: beach
Woodbridge: Birchs Bay & Yellow Point
Woodbridge: Fleurtys Bay & Point
Woodbridge: Flowerpot
Woodbridge: foreshore & Birchs Point
Woolnorth: Woolnorth Point
Wykeholm Point & Bay
Wynyard: Fossil Bluff

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