''Mytella'' is a
genus
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of saltwater clams,
marine
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bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
mollusc
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s 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 gen ...
, the mussels.
Species
* ''
Mytella charruana
''Mytella charruana'' is a bivalve, commonly known as the charru mussel. This species was discovered in Central and South America and by Alcide d'Orbigny, a French naturalist, in 1842. They are less than an inch long (2.5 cm), and range fro ...
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(d'Orbigny, 1842)
* ''
Mytella guyanensis''
J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1819
* ''
Mytella maracaibensis
''Mytella'' is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae, the mussels.
Species
* ''Mytella charruana
''Mytella charruana'' is a bivalve, commonly known as the charru mussel. This species was discovered in Ce ...
''
Beauperthuy, 1967
* ''
Mytella speciosa''
(Reeve, 1857)
* ''
Mytella tumbezensis''
(Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935)
References
* 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.
etails
Mytilidae
Bivalve genera
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