What is Mytilus coruscus?
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Mytilus coruscus'' | image = | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Mollusc]]a | classis = [[Bivalvia]] | subclassis = [[Heterodonta]] | ordo = [[Mytiloida]] | familia = [[Mytilidae]] | subfamilia = [[Mytilinae]] | genus = ''[[Mytilus (genus)|Mytilus]]'' | species = '''''M. coruscus''''' | binomial = ''Mytilus coruscus'' | binomial_authority = [[Augustus Addison Gould|Gould]], 1861 }} '''''Mytilus coruscus''''' is the [[scientific name]] for the '''Korean mussel'''.<ref name=FAO>{{cite web|last=FAO|title=National Aquaculture Sector Overview. Republic of Korea. National Aquaculture Sector Overview Fact Sheets|url=http://www.fao.org/fishery/countrysector/naso_korea/en|publisher=FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department|accessdate=2012-12-21}}</ref><ref name=RJG>V. A. Kulikova, S. A. Lyashenko and N. K. Kolotukhina (2011) [http://www.springerlink.com/content/r311470l78381w43/ Seasonal and interannual dynamics of larval abundance of Mytilus coruscus Gould, 1861 (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) in Amursky Bay (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan)]{{Dead link|date=December 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Russian Journal of Marine Biology 37, 342-347 {{doi| 10.1134/S1063074011050087}}</ref> It is also called the '''hard-shelled mussel'''.<ref name=GMR>T.-J. Xu, Y.-N. Sun, Y.-T. Yuan, Z. Liao, R.-X. Wang (2010) [http://www.geneticsmr.com/articles/922 Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in the hard-shelled mussel, ''Mytilus coruscus'' (Mytilidae)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063321/http://www.geneticsmr.com/articles/922 |date=2016-03-04 }} Genetics and Molecular Research 9 (3)</ref> It is a [[species]] of [[mussel]] and a [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[bivalve]] [[mollusc]]. It is in the family [[Mytilidae]]. This species is heavily used as a food item via [[mariculture]] in [[Korea]].<ref name=FAO/> and in [[China]]<ref name=GMR/> ==Distribution and habitat== This species lives along the coasts of the subtropical western [[Pac