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Mytilidae
Sign in to saveThe Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, Limnoperna, inhabits freshwater environments. Mytilidae, which contains some 52 genera, is the only extant family within the order Mytilida.
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Mytilidae is a family of bivalve mollusks within the order Mytilida, class Bivalvia, and phylum Mollusca. The taxon, which has the type species *Mytilus*, was described by Rafinesque in 1815 and is currently accepted. Its parent taxon is Mytiloidea. Common names for this group include Mossels e.a., Miesmuscheln, klapavice, and blåmusslor. The family is distinct from the general term "mussel."
Members of Mytilidae inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. The taxon is documented in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. Various databases contain records of this family, including 691,645 occurrence records, 4,390 PubMed entries, and 5,208 records from iDigBio, with media held by institutions such as LACM in the United States.
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Species
blåmusslor
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderMytilida
- FamilyMytilidae
Die Miesmuscheln (Mytilidae) (andere Bezeichnung Pfahlmuscheln) sind nach der aktuellen Systematik der Muscheln eine Familie der Ordnung Mytilida. Diese wird zur Infraklasse Pteriomorphia innerhalb der Autolamellibranchiata gestellt. Es handelt sich um eine hauptsächlich in den Gezeiten- und Schelfbereichen der Meere lebende Muschelgruppe, kleinere Gruppen leben aber auch hoch spezialisiert symbiontisch mit chemoautotrophen Bakterien in der Tiefsee an hydrothermalen Quellen und Methanaustritten am Meeresboden. Die ältesten Miesmuscheln (Mytilidae) sind aus dem Devon bekannt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Merkmale 2 Geographische Verbreitung und Lebensweise 3 Vorbild in der Bionik 4 Systematik 5 Belege 5.1 Literatur 5.2 Einzelnachweise 6 Weblinks Merkmale Die Gehäuse der Mytilidae sind immer gleichklappig. Die Form der Gehäuse war ursprünglich wohl oval, ist in den meisten Gruppen jedoch charakteristischerweise stark verlängert, und der Wirbel ist nach vorne verlagert. Die Schale besteht aus einer inneren Lage mit aragonitisch, perlmuttrigen Mikrostrukturen, einer mittleren Lage mit kalzitischen, prismatischen Mikrostrukturen und einer äußeren organischen Lage (Periostracum), die bei manchen
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,208
- With media
- 149
- Family
- Mytilidae
- Collections
- LACM
- Recorded in
- United States
Research
4,390 papers- Mytilidae as model organisms in the marine ecotoxicology of pharmaceuticals - A review.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2019
- [Cell Function Research of β-Trefoil Lectins from Mytilidae].Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan · 2021
- A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Mytilidae (Bivalvia: Mytilida).Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2019
- Mitochondrial genomic analyses provide new insights into the "missing" atp8 and adaptive evolution of Mytilidae.BMC genomics · 2022
- Pollution monitoring in Southeast Asia using biomarkers in the mytilid mussel Perna viridis (Mytilidae: Bivalvia).Environment international · 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mytiloidea
- Image
- Miesmuscheln Mytilus 1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Mytilidae
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- topic's main category
- Category:Mytilidae
- taxonomic type
- Mytilus
- taxon common name
- klapavice
- different from
- mussel
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Subfamilies and genera
- Subfamily [[Brachidontinae]]
- Subfamily [[Crenellinae]]
- Subfamily [[Dacrydiinae]]
- Subfamily [[Lithophaginae]]
- Subfamily [[Mytilinae]]
- Subfamily [[Mytiliseptinae]]
- Subfamily [[Septiferinae]]
- †Subfamily [[Xenomytilinae]]
- ''[[Incertae sedis]]''
- References
- External links
The Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, Limnoperna, inhabits freshwater environments. Mytilidae, which contains some 52 genera, is the only extant family within the order Mytilida.
Species in the family Mytilidae are found worldwide, but they are more abundant in colder seas, where they often form uninterrupted beds on rocky shores in the intertidal zone and the shallow subtidal. The subfamily Bathymodiolinae is found in deep-sea habitats.
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