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The 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

"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

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"

including: Blood cockle Senilia senilis Many species of true mussels, family Mytilidae, including: Blue mussel California mussel Mediterranean mussel Mytilus

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

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

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

The marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Phylum: Mollusca According to 2006 survey by De Silva, there are 240

economically important species of mussel, a bivalve belonging to the family Mytilidae, or the "true mussels". It is harvested for food but is also known to