Mytilidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mytiloida
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Bivalvia Subclassis: Pteriomorphia Ordo: Mytiloida

Familia: Mytilidae
Subfamiliae: Crenellinae - Dacrydiinae - Limnoperninae - Lithophaginae - Modiolinae - Mytilinae - Septiferinae

Overview of genera

Adipicola - Adula - Amygdalum - Arcuatula - Bathymodiolus - Botula - Brachidontes - Crenella - Dacrydium - Geukensia - Gigantidas - Gregariella - Idasola - Ischadium - Lioberus - Lithophaga - Megacrenella - Modiolula - Modiolus - Musculista - Musculus - Mytilaster - Mytilus - Perna - Rhomboidella - Septifer - Solamen - Stenolena - Tamu - Vilasina - Vulcanidas

Name

• Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815

References

• Bouchet, P. et al. 2010: Nomenclator of bivalve families with a classification of bivalve families. Malacologia, 52(2): 1–184. doi: 10.4002/040.052.0201
• Cosel, R. von; Marshall, B.A. 2003: Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. Nautilus, 117(2): 31-46. ISSN: 0028-1344 [not seen]
• Cosel, R. von; Marshall, B.A. 2010: A new genus and species of large mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from the Kermadec Ridge. Tuhinga: records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 21: 59–73. ISSN: 1173-4337
• Saether, K.P. et al. 2010: New fossil mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North Island, New Zealand, with general remarks on vent and seep mussels. Zootaxa, 2577: 1-45. Preview PDF

links

• WoRMS (2010). Mytilidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211 on 2010-08-20

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