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Definition of Family Mytilidae
1. Noun. Marine mussels.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Bivalvia, Class Bivalvia, Class Lamellibranchia, Class Pelecypoda, Lamellibranchia
Member holonyms: Genus Mytilus, Mytilus, Marine Mussel, Mytilid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Mytilidae
Literary usage of Family Mytilidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"Tridacna. Hippopus. (•!•) Ligament at the lateral border of the shell, and always
entire. family Mytilidae. ..."
2. A Monograph of the Molluscan Fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax Zone of the by William Healey Dall (1915)
"The Bowden form1 has a still finer and often partially ol striation. Family MYTILIDAE.
Genus MODIOLUS Lamarck. ..."
3. New English Canaan Text & Notes by Jack Dempsey (2001)
"Mussels—of the family Mytilidae of bivalve mollusks—poss. the Common Mussle (Mytilus
edulis). or Elliptio complanata (a New World freshwater clam of the ..."
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