''Mytella'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of saltwater clams,
marine 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, biv ...
molluscs 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 ge ...
, the mussels.
Species
* ''
Mytella charruana''
(d'Orbigny, 1842)
* ''
Mytella guyanensis''
J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1819
* ''
Mytella maracaibensis''
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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