''Brachidontes'' is a genus of
mussels in the family
Mytilidae
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 freshwater environments. The order has only this one family which contains some 52 gener ...
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[Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. ''A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.'' New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 17.]
Species
The following are the species currently included in ''Brachidontes'':
* ''
Brachidontes adamsianus
''Brachidontes'' is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae
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 freshwater environmen ...
''
(Dunker, 1857) — Adams mussel
* ''
Brachidontes crebristriatus''
(Conrad, 1837)
* ''
Brachidontes darwinianus''
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
* ''
Brachidontes domingensis''
(Lamarck, 1819) — Santo Domingo mussel
* ''
Brachidontes dunkeri'' M
. Huber, 2015
* ''
Brachidontes erosus''
(Lamarck, 1819)
* ''
Brachidontes esmeraldensis''
(Olsson, 1961)
* ''
Brachidontes evansi''
(E. A. Smith, 1903)
* ''
Brachidontes exustus''
(Linnaeus, 1758) — scorched mussel
* ''
Brachidontes granoliratus''
(G. B. Sowerby III, 1909)
* ''
Brachidontes granulatus''
(Hanley, 1843)
* ''
Brachidontes houstonius''
Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
* ''
Brachidontes modiolus''
(Linnaeus, 1767) — yellow mussel
* ''
Brachidontes mutabilis''
(Gould, 1861) — mutable mussel
* ''
Brachidontes niger''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Brachidontes pharaonis''
(Fischer P., 1870)
* ''
Brachidontes playasensis''
(Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935)
* ''
Brachidontes puniceus''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Brachidontes puntarenensis''
(Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
* ''
Brachidontes rodriguezii''
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
* ''
Brachidontes rostratus''
(Dunker, 1857)
* ''
Brachidontes sculptus''
(Iredale, 1939)
* ''
Brachidontes semilaevis'' (
Menke, 1848)
* ''
Brachidontes setiger''
(Dunker, 1857)
* ''
Brachidontes striatulus''
(Hanley, 1843)
* ''
Brachidontes subramosus''
(Hanley, 1843)
* ''
Brachidontes subsulcatus''
(Dunker, 1857)
* ''
Brachidontes undulatus''
(Dunker, 1857)
* ''
Brachidontes ustulatus''
(Lamarck, 1819)
* ''
Brachidontes variabilis''
(Krauss, 1848) — variable mussel; synonym: ''
Brachidontes semistriatus''
* ''
Brachidontes virgiliae''
(Barnard, 1964)
* ''
Brachidontes willetsi''
(Marwick, 1928)
References
Mytilidae
Bivalve genera
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