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Mytilidae  Rafinesque, 1815
Taxonomic Serial No.: 79451

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2020   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassBivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams, bivalves, palourdes, bivalve, mexilhão, ostra  
                   SubclassAutobranchia   
                      InfraclassPteriomorphia   
                         OrderMytilida   
                            SuperfamilyMytiloidea Rafinesque, 1815  
                               FamilyMytilidae Rafinesque, 1815  
    Direct Children:  
                                  GenusAdipicola Dautzenberg, 1927  
                                  GenusAdula H. Adams and A. Adams, 1857  
                                  GenusAmygdalum Megerle von Muhlfeld, 1811  
                                  GenusArcuatula Soot-Ryen, 1955  
                                  GenusBotula Mörch, 1853  
                                  GenusBrachidontes Swainson, 1840  
                                  GenusCrenella T. Brown, 1827  
                                  GenusDacrydium Torell, 1859  
                                  GenusGeukensia Van de Poel, 1959  
                                  GenusGregariella di Monterosato, 1884  
                                  GenusIdasola Iredale, 1939  
                                  GenusIschadium Jukes-Browne, 1905  
                                  GenusLioberus Dall, 1898  
                                  GenusLithophaga Roding, 1798  
                                  GenusMegacrenella Habe and Ito, 1965  
                                  GenusModiolula Sacco, 1898  
                                  GenusModiolus Lamarck, 1799  
                                  GenusMusculista Yamamoto and Habe, 1958  
                                  GenusMusculus Roding, 1798  
                                  GenusMytilus Linnaeus, 1758  
                                  GenusPerna Philipsson, 1788  
                                  GenusRhomboidella Monterosato, 1884  
                                  GenusSeptifer Recluz, 1848  
                                  GenusSolamen Iredale, 1924  
                                  GenusStenolena Dall, Bartsch, and Rehder, 1938  
                                  GenusVilasina Bartsch, 1960  
       

 References
       
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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bieler, Rüdiger, Joseph G. Carter, and Eugene V. Coan   
  Publication Date: 2010   
  Article/Chapter Title: Classification of Bivalve Families, IN Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Malacologia, vol. 52, no. 2   
  Page(s): 113-184   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0076-2997   
  Notes: Available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.052.0201   
  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Millard, V.   
  Publication Date: 1997   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Classification of Mollusca: A classification of world wide Mollusca   
  Page(s): 1-544   
  Publisher: Victor Millard   
  Publication Place: South Africa   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-620-21261-6   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ponder, Winston Frank, David R. Lindberg, and Juliet Mary Ponder   
  Publication Date: 2020   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, vol. 2   
  Page(s): xx + 870   
  Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780815361848   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26   
  Page(s): 526   
  Publisher: American Fisheries Society   
  Publication Place: Bethesda, Maryland, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-888569-01-8, 0097-0638  
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Vaught, K. C. / Abbott, Robert T. and Kenneth J. Boss   
  Publication Date: 1989   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A classification of the living Mollusca   
  Page(s): xii+195   
  Publisher: American Malacologists, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Melbourne, FL, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-915826-22-4   
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  Reference for: Mytilidae   
       

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