Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea

Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brachidontinae F. Nordsieck, 1969
Crenellinae J. E. Gray, 1840
Dacrydiinae Ockelmann, 1983
Lithophaginae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
Mytilidae incertae sedis
Mytilinae Rafinesque, 1815
Septiferinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: mossels sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

Japanese: イガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: blåmusslor

Literature

basis of record	Tan, K. S. & Tan, S. H. M. (2024). Tussles with mussels: Mytiloidean phylogeny revisited (Bivalvia: Pteriomorphia). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90(4): eyae039: 1-11.
additional source	Lorion, J.; Kiel, S.; Faure, B.; Kawato, M.; Ho, S. Y. M.; Marshall, B. A.; Tsuchida, S.; Miyazaki, J.-I. & Fujiwara, Y. (2013). Adaptive radiation of chemosymbiotic deep-sea mussels. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 280: 20131243 (9 pp).
additional source	Gosling E. (editor) (1992). The mussel Mytilus: ecology, physiology, genetics and culture. * Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, 25. Elsevier, Amsterdam. xiii + 589 pp.:
additional source	Soot-Ryen T. (1955). A report on the family Mytilidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 20(1): 1-154 pls 1-20.
additional source	Morton B. (2015). Evolution and adaptive radiation in the Mytiloidea (Bivalvia): clues from the pericardial-posterior byssal retractor musculature complex. Molluscan Research. 35(4): 227-245.
redescription	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211