Family Mytilidae

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

•  
  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
•  
  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
•  
  •
•  
  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
•  
  Protostomia (protostomes)
•  
  •
•  
  Lophotrochozoa
•  
  Trochozoa
•  
  Phylum Mollusca (mollusks)
•  
  •
•  
  •
•  
  •
•  
  Class Bivalvia (bivalves and clams)
•  
  Subclass Pteriomorphia
•  
  Order Mytiloida
•  
  Family Mytilidae
•  
  Genus Adipicola
•  
  Genus Adula
•  
  Genus Amygdalum
•  
  Genus Arcuatula
•  
  Genus Botula
•  
  Genus Brachidontes
•  
  Genus Crenella
•  
  Genus Dacrydium
•  
  Genus Geukensia
•  
  Genus Gregariella
•  
  Genus Idasola
•  
  Genus Ischadium
•  
  Genus Lioberus
•  
  Genus Lithophaga
•  
  Genus Megacrenella
•  
  Genus Modiolula
•  
  Genus Modiolus
•  
  Genus Musculista
•  
  Genus Musculus
•  
  Genus Mytilus
•  
  Genus Perna
•  
  Genus Rhomboidella
•  
  Genus Septifer
•  
  Genus Solamen
•  
  Genus Vilasina