''Brachidontes'' is a genus of

mussel Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...

s in the family

Mytilidae The Mytilidae are a family (biology), family of small to large Marine life, marine and Brackish water, brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order (biology), order Mytilida. One of the genera, ''Limnoperna fortunei, Limnoperna'', even inhabits f ...

.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'' (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 {{Mytilidae-stub