Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, Limnoperna, even inhabits...

edible, mainly saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Mussels have a gray to blue-purple, fully grown shell about 5 - 10 centimeters...

mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae, the only extant family in the order Mytilida, known as "true mussels"...

is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts...

Scots: clabbydoo), is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Mytilidae. Modiolus modiolus is a large mussel growing to 22 cm (9ins) long though...

extant superfamily, the Mytiloidea, with a single extant family, the Mytilidae. Species in the order Mytilida are found worldwide, but they are more...

shell or date mussel, is a species of Bivalvia belonging to the family Mytilidae. Fossils of Lithophaga lithophaga are found in marine strata from the...

"mussel" is frequently used to mean the bivalves of the marine family Mytilidae, most of which live on exposed shores in the intertidal zone, attached...

greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). P. canaliculus has economic importance as a cultivated...

of clams have a byssus, including pen shells (Pinnidae), true mussels (Mytilidae), and Dreissenidae. Byssus filaments are created by certain kinds of marine...