Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytiloida > Superfamily Mytiloidea

Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927
Amygdalum Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Arcuatula Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919
Bathymodiolus Kenk & B. R. Wilson, 1985
Brachidontes Swainson, 1840
Crenella T. Brown, 1827
Dacrydium Torell, 1859
Geukensia Van de Poel, 1959
Gibbomodiola Sacco, 1898
Gregariella Monterosato, 1884
Idas Jeffreys, 1876
Jolya Bourguignat, 1877
Limnoperna Rochebrune, 1882
Lioberus Dall, 1898
Lithophaga Röding, 1798
Modiolatus Jousseaume, 1893
Modiolula Sacco, 1897
Modiolus Lamarck, 1799
Musculus Röding, 1798
Mytilaster Monterosato, 1884
Mytilus Linnaeus, 1758
Perna Philipsson, 1788
Rhomboidella Monterosato, 1884
Septifer Dunker, 1848
Solamen Iredale, 1924
Xenostrobus Wilson, 1967

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: mossels sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.
 Swedish: blåmusslor

Literature

additional source

Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.

redescription

Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211

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2012-01-04 by Philippe Bouchet

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