327 Species in Family Mytilidae
Nominal species list for Mytilidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Adula californiensis (Philippi, 1847) California datemussel
Adula diegensis (Dall, 1911) San Diego datemussel
Adula falcata (Gould, 1851)
Adula gruneri (Philippi, 1851) Curved datemussel
Adula schmidtii (Schrenck, 1867) Schmidt datemussel
Adipicola arcuatilis Dell, 1995
Adipicola crypta (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Adipicola osseocola (Dell, 1987)
Adipicola pacifica (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Amygdalum agglutinans (Cantraine, 1835)
Amygdalum americanum Soot-Ryen, 1955
Amygdalum dendriticum Muhlfeld, 1811
Amygdalum pallidulum (Dall, 1916)
Amygdalum papyrium (Conrad, 1846) Atlantic papermussel
Amygdalum peasei (Newcomb, 1870)
Amygdalum plumeum Kuroda & Habe, 1971
Amygdalum politum (Verrill & Smith, 1880) Polished papermussel
Amygdalum sagittatum (Rehder, 1935) Arrow papermussel
Amygdalum soyoae Habe, 1958
Amygdalum watsoni (Smith, 1885)
Arcuatula arcuatula (Hanley, 1843) Arcuate mussel
Arcuatula elegans (Gray, 1828)
Arcuatula japonica (Dunker, 1857)
Arcuatula senhousia (Benson, 1842) Green mussel
Arvella faba (Müller, 1776) Bean Crenella
Aulacomya ater maoriana Iredale, 1915
Aulacomya atra (Molina,1782) Chilean ribbed mussel
Aulacomya maoriana (Iredale, 1915)
Bathymodiolus aduloides Hashimoto & Oktuani, 1994
Bathymodiolus antarcticus Johnson & Vrijenhoek, 2013
Bathymodiolus azoricus Cosel & Comtet, 1999
Bathymodiolus billschneideri McCowin, Feehery & Rouse, 2020
Bathymodiolus boomerang Cosel & Olu, 1998
Bathymodiolus brevior Cosel, Metivier & Hashimoto, 1994
Bathymodiolus brooksi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Bathymodiolus earlougheri McCowin, Feehery & Rouse, 2020
Bathymodiolus elongatus Cosel, Metivier & Hashimoto, 1994
Bathymodiolus heckerae Turner, Gustafson, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Oktuani, 1994
Bathymodiolus manusensis Hashimoto & Furuta, 2007
Bathymodiolus marisindicus Hashimoto, 2001
Bathymodiolus nancyschneiderae McCowin, Feehery & Rouse, 2020
Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Oktuani, 1994
Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis Cosel, Metivier & Hashimoto, 1994
Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Oktuani, 1994
Bathymodiolus tangaroa Marshall, 2003
Bathymodiolus thermophilus Kenk & Wilson, 1985
Benthomodiolus abyssicola (Knudsen, 1970)
Benthomodiolus lignocola Dell, 1987
Botula alepidosauri unspecified
Botula cablei unspecified
Botula cinnamomea (Gmelin, 1791)
Botula fusca (Gmelin, 1791) Cinnamon mussel
Botula hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Botula profundiella unspecified
Botula silicula (Lamarck, 1819)
Brachidontes adamsianus (Dunker, 1857) Adams mussel
Brachidontes blakeanus Melvill & Standen, 1914
Brachidontes crebristriatus (Conrad, 1837) Hawaiian mussel
Brachidontes darwinianus (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Brachidontes domingensis (Lamarck, 1819) Santo domingo mussel
Brachidontes dunkeri Huber, 2015
Brachidontes erosus (Lamarck, 1819)
Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758) Scorched mussel
Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767) Yellow mussel
Brachidontes multiformes (Carpenter, 1855)
Brachidontes mutabilis (Gould, 1861) Mutable mussel
Brachidontes pharaonis (Fischer, 1870)
Brachidontes rodriguezii (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Brachidontes semilaevis (Menke, 1848)
Brachidontes setiger (Dunker, 1857)
Brachidontes setigera (Dunker, 1856)
Brachidontes sinensis Wang, 1983
Brachidontes solisianus (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Brachidontes striatulus (Hanley, 1844)
Brachidontes subramosus (Hanley, 1850)
Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819)
Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848) Variable mussel
Choromytilus chorus (Molina, 1782) Choro mussel
Choromytilus meridionalis (Krauss, 1848)
Choromytilus palliopunctatus (Carpenter, 1857) Pinpricked mussel
Crenella abbotti Altena, 1968
Crenella arenaria Monterosato, 1875
Crenella decussata (Montagu, 1808) Cross-sculpture Crenella
Crenella divaricata (d'Orbigny, 1842) Spreading-sculpture Crenella
Crenella fragilis Verrill, 1885 Fragile Crenella
Crenella gemma Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Crenella glandula (Totten, 1834) Glandular Crenella
Crenella leana Dall, 1897
Crenella magellanica Linse, 2002
Crenella marionensis Smith, 1885
Crenella pectinula (Gould, 1841) Little-comb Crenella
Crenella pellucida (Jeffreys, 1859)
Crenella rotundata Dall, 1916
Crenella skomma (Schwengel, 1944) Joking Crenella
Crenella yokoyamai Nomura, 1932
Dacrydium abyssorum Allen, 1998
Dacrydium albidum Pelseneer, 1903
Dacrydium alleni Beeston, Cragg & Linse, 2018
Dacrydium elegantulum Salas & Gofas, 1997
Dacrydium hedleyi Allen, 1998
Dacrydium hyalinum (Monterosato, 1875)
Dacrydium knudseni Allen, 1998
Dacrydium leucoguttatum van der Linden & Moolenbeek, 2004
Dacrydium minimum Okutani & Izumidate, 1992
Dacrydium modioliforme Thiele, 1912
Dacrydium nipponicum (Okutani, 1975)
Dacrydium occidentale (Smith, 1885)
Dacrydium ockelmanni Mattson & Waren, 1977
Dacrydium pacificum Dall, 1916 Pacific glassy-mussel
Dacrydium panamense Knudsen, 1970
Dacrydium pelseneeri Hedley, 1906
Dacrydium sandersi Allen, 1998
Dacrydium vitreum (Moller, 1842) Arctic glassy-mussel
Dacrydium wareni Salas & Gofas, 1997
Dacrydium zebra Hayami & Kase, 1993
Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn, 1817) Ribbed mussel
Geukensia granosissima (Sowerby III, 1914) Southern ribbed-mussel
Gigantidas gladius Marshall, 2003
Gigantidas horikoshii Hashimoto & Yamane, 2005
Gigantidas taiwanensis (Cosel, 2008)
Gigantidas vrijenhoeki Jang, Ho, Jum, Kim & Won, 2020
Gregariella barbata (Reeve, 1858)
Gregariella chenui (Recluz, 1842) Chenu mussel
Gregariella coarctata (Carpenter, 1856) Cancellate mussel
Gregariella coralliophaga (Gmelin, 1791) Coral-eating mussel
Gregariella otteri (Iredale, 1939)
Gregariella petagnae (Scacchi, 1832) Half-hairy mussel
Gregariella semigranata (Reeve, 1858)
Gregariella splendida (Dunker, 1856)
Idas ghisottii Warén & Carrozza, 1990
Idas japonica (Habe, 1976)
Idas lamellosus Verrill, 1882
Idas macdonaldi Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Idas modiolaeformis (Sturany, 1896)
Idas simpsoni (Marshall, 1900)
Idas washingtoniana (Bernard, 1978)
Idasola argentea (Jeffreys, 1876)
Ischadium recurvum (Rafinesque, 1820) Hooked mussel
Jolya elongatus (Swainson, 1821)
Jolya rhomboidea (Reeve, 1857) Rhomboid mussel
Leiosolenus appendiculatus (Philippi, 1846)
Leiosolenus hanleyanus (Reeve, 1857)
Leiosolenus lessepsianus (Vaillant, 1865)
Leiosolenus nasutus (Philippi, 1846)
Leiosolenus obesus (Philippi, 1847)
Leiosolenus peruvianus (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Leiosolenus plumula (Hanley, 1843) Feather datemussel
Leiosolenus tripartitus (Jousseaume, 1894)
Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1856) Chinese freshwater mussel
Lioberus castanea (Say, 1822)
Lioberus castaneus (Say, 1822) Chestnut mussel
Lioberus ligneus (Reeve, 1858)
Lithophaga antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1853) Giant datemussel
Lithophaga aristata (Dillwyn, 1817) Scissor datemussel
Lithophaga attenuata (Deshayes, 1836) Attenuated datemussel
Lithophaga bisulcata (d'Orbigny, 1853) Mahogany datemussel
Lithophaga calyculata (Carpenter, 1857)
Lithophaga canalifera (Hanley, 1841)
Lithophaga corrugata (Philippi, 1846)
Lithophaga curta (Lischke, 1874) Burrowing datemussel
Lithophaga divaricalx Iredale, 1939
Lithophaga erimitica Kuroda & Habe, 1971
Lithophaga laevigata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
Lithophaga levigata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
Lithophaga lima (Lamy, 1919)
Lithophaga lithophaga (Linnaeus, 1758) European date mussel
Lithophaga lithura Pilsbry, 1905
Lithophaga malacanna (Reeve, 1857)
Lithophaga malaccana (Reeve, 1858)
Lithophaga mucronata (Philippi, 1848)
Lithophaga nigra (d'Orbigny, 1853) Black datemussel
Lithophaga patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Lithophaga piulchra Lamy, 1919
Lithophaga robusta Lamy, 1919 Rock eater
Lithophaga rogersi Berry, 1957
Lithophaga simplex Iredale, 1939
Lithophaga straminea Dunker, 1857
Lithophaga teres (Philippi, 1846) Cylinder date mussel
Lithophaga zitteliana Dunker, 1883
Lucina roquesana Gibson-Smith & Gibson-Smith, 1982
Megacrenella columbiana (Dall, 1897)
Megacrenella grisea (Dall, 1907)
Megacrenella sinica (Wang & Qi, 1984)
Modiola carolinensis Conrad, 1837
Modiolarca impacta (Hermann, 1782) Nesting mussel
Modiolarca subpicta (Cantraine, 1835)
Modiolatus flavidus (Dunker, 1857)
Modiolula phaseolina (Philippi, 1844) Bean horse-mussel
Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1819)
Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815) Tulip mussel
Modiolus aratus (Dunker, 1857) Furrowed horse mussel
Modiolus areolatus (Gould, 1850) Hairy mussel
Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848) Eared horse mussel
Modiolus aurum Osorio, 1979
Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Bearded horse mussel
Modiolus capax (Conrad, 1837) Fat horsemussel
Modiolus carpenteri Soot-Ryen, 1963 California horsemussel
Modiolus carvalhoi Klappenbach, 1966
Modiolus cecillei (Philippi, 1847)
Modiolus comptus (Sowerby, 1915)
Modiolus demissus unspecified
Modiolus difficilis Kuroda & Habe, 1950
Modiolus eiseni Strong & Hertlein, 1937
Modiolus elongatus (Swainson, 1821) Elongated mussel
Modiolus ficoides Macsotay & Campos, 2001
Modiolus flavidus (Dunker, 1882)
Modiolus hanleyi (Dunker, 1882)
Modiolus lulat (Dautzenberg, 1891)
Modiolus martorelli (Hidalgo, 1878)
Modiolus matris Pilsbry, 1921
Modiolus metcalfei (Hanley, 1843) Yellowbanded horse mussel
Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) Northern horsemussel
Modiolus modulaides (Röding, 1798)
Modiolus neglectus Soot-Ryen, 1955 Neglected horsemussel
Modiolus nipponicus (Oyama, 1950)
Modiolus nitens Carpenter, 1857 Shiny mussel
Modiolus nitidus (Reeve, 1857)
Modiolus patagonicus (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Modiolus philippinarum (Hanley, 1843) Philippine horse mussel
Modiolus plicatus (Gmelin, 1791)
Modiolus rectus (Conrad, 1837) Straight horsemussel
Modiolus sacculifer (Berry, 1953) Bag horsemussel
Modiolus squamosus Beauperthuy, 1967
Modiolus vaginus (Lamarck, 1819)
Musculista japonica Dunker, 1857
Musculista perfragilis (Dunker, 1856)
Musculus calceatus (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
Musculus chinensis Bernard, Cai & Morton, 1993
Musculus coenobitus (Vaillant, 1865)
Musculus corrugatus (Stimpson, 1851)
Musculus costulatus (Risso, 1826)
Musculus cultellus (Deshayer, 1839)
Musculus cumingianus Reeve, 1857
Musculus cupreus (Gould, 1861)
Musculus discors (Linnaeus, 1767) Discordant mussel
Musculus glacialis (Leche, 1883) Corrugate mussel
Musculus impactus (Hermann, 1782)
Musculus impressus (Dall, 1907)
Musculus japonica unspecified
Musculus lacustre Müller
Musculus lateralis (Say, 1822) Lateral mussel
Musculus marmoratus (Forbes, 1838) Spotted mussel
Musculus mirandus (Smith, 1884)
Musculus nanus (Dunker, 1856)
Musculus nexus Reeve, 1857
Musculus niger (Gray, 1824) Black mussel
Musculus olivaceus Dall, 1916
Musculus partumetum unspecified
Musculus phenax (Dall, 1915) Alaska dwarf-mussel
Musculus pusio (Adams, 1862)
Musculus pygmaeus Glynn, 1964 Monterey dwarf-mussel
Musculus securis Prime
Musculus seminudus (Dall, 1897)
Musculus senhousei (Benson, 1842)
Musculus strigatus (Hanley, 1843)
Musculus taylori (Dall, 1897) Taylor dwarf-mussel
Musculus vernicosus (Middendorff, 1849)
Musculus viator (d'Orbigny, 1846)
Musculus viridulus (Adams, 1871)
Myoforceps aristatus (Dillwyn, 1817)
Mytella bicolor (Bruguière, 1792) Guyana swamp mussel
Mytella charruana (d'Orbigny, 1847) Charrua mussel
Mytella maracaibensis Beauperthuy, 1967
Mytella speciosa (Reeve, 1857)
Mytilaster lineatus (Gmelin, 1791)
Mytilaster marioni (Locard, 1889)
Mytilaster minimus (Poli, 1795)
Mytilaster solidus Monterosato, 1872
Mytilisepta eliae Cossignani, 2022
Mytilisepta virgata (Wiegmann, 1837) Purplish bifurcate mussel
Mytilus antarcticus Barnes, 1823
Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837 California mussel
Mytilus chilensis (Hupé, 1854) Chilean mussel
Mytilus desolationis Lamy, 1936 Kerguelen mussel
Mytilus divaricata Gould, 1851
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758 Blue mussel
Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 Mediterranean mussel
Mytilus planulatus Lamarck, 1819 New Zealand blue mussel
Mytilus platensis d'Orbigny, 1842 River plata mussel
Mytilus smaragdinus unspecified
Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850 Foolish mussel
Mytilus unguiculatus Valenciennes, 1858 Far Eastern mussel
Perna canaliculus unspecified New Zealand green mussels
Perna indica unspecified Indian brown mussel
Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) South American rock mussel
Perna picta (Born, 1780)
Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) Asian brown mussel
Perumytilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) Purple mussel
Rhomboidella capensis Thiele, 1931
Rhomboidella malaccana Ockelmann, 1983
Rhomboidella prideaux (Leach, 1915)
Rhomboidella radians (Suter, 1908)
Rhomboidella rodriguensis Oliver & Holmes, 2004
Rhomboidella vaillanti (Issel, 1869)
Septifer bifurcatus (Conrad, 1837) Bifurcate mussel
Septifer bilocularis (Linnaeus, 1758) Box mussel
Septifer bryanae (Pilsbry, 1920)
Septifer cumingii Récluz, 1849
Septifer excisus (Wiegmann, 1837)
Septifer forskali Dunker, 1855
Septifer keenae Nomura, 1936 Japanese bifurcate mussel
Septifer pulcher Wang, 1983
Septifer rudis unspecified
Septifer xishanensis Wang, 1983
Solamen columbianum (Dall, 1897) British Columbia crenella
Solamen glandula (Totten, 1834)
Solamen leanum (Dall, 1897) Lea crenella
Solamen megas (Dall, 1902) Giant crenella
Solamen spectabilis (Adams, 1862)
Stavelia subdistorta (Récluz, 1852) Distorted mussel
Stenolena hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch, & Rehder, 1938
Tamu fisheri Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
Trichomusculus barbatus (Reeve, 1858)
Trichomusculus semigranatus (Reeve, 1858)
Trichomusculus subsulcatus (Dunker, 1856)
Trichomya hirsutua (Lamarck, 1819)
Vignadula atrata (Lischke, 1871) Atrate mussel
Vignadula kuraburiensis Tan, Tan, Sanpanich, Duangdee, Ambarwati, 2022
Vilasina seminuda (Dall, 1897) Partly-sculptured crenella
Vilasina vernicosa (Middendorff, 1849) Varnished mussel
Vulcanidas insolatus von Cosel & Marshall, 2010
Xenostrobus neozelanicus (Iredale, 1915)
Xenostrobus pulex (Lamarck, 1819) Little black mussel
Xenostrobus securis (Lamarck, 1819) Little brown mussel
Zelithophaga truncata (Gray, 1843) Date mussel
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