| Mytilaster | |
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| Mytilaster lineatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: | Mytilaster Monterosato, 1884 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Mytilaster lineatus (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
MytilodontaCoen, 1935 | |
Mytilaster is a genus of marine mussels from the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Basin. The type species is Mytilaster lineatus . [2]
Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, Limnoperna, even inhabits freshwater environments. Mytilidae, which contains some 52 genera, is the only extant family within the order Mytilida.
Raphitoma alternans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Raphitomidae.
Raphitoma densa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Raphitoma pupoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Raphitoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Chauvetia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Jujubinus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Phorcus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Alvania is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
Setia is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
Mytilaster lineatus is a species of marine mussel, distributed in European waters. It is common in Greece, Russia and Ukraine. It is referred as an introduced species in the Caspian Sea.
Tommaso di Maria Allery, marchese di Monterosato was an Italian malacologist.
Gregariella is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.
Crassopleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
Trabecula jeffreysiana is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Vitreolina is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family.
Auristomia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Cordieria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
Mytilaster minimus, the dwarf mussel or variable mussel, is a species of mussel from sea and brackish waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
Parvicardium is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Lymnocardiinae of the family Cardiidae.
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