Mytiloidea
Sign in to saveMytiloidea are a superfamily of small to large saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida.
Species
Superfamily
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderMytilida
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
via
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 42
- Family
- Inoceramidae
- Collections
- FMNH
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, India
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Mytiloidea are a superfamily of small to large saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida.
Mytiloidea contains two families, Mysideiellidae, which is known only from fossils and Mytilidae, which has living representatives.
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