
Black Mussels
Mytilus
Mytilus is a cosmopolitan genus of medium to large-sized edible, mainly saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Blue Mussels
complexMytilus edulis

California Mussel
speciesMytilus californianus

Korean Black Mussel
speciesMytilus coruscus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62807.