Definition of Family Mytilidae

1. Noun. Marine mussels.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Mytilidae

family Mutillidae
family Myacidae
family Mycetophylidae
family Mycobacteriaceae
family Mycoplasmataceae
family Myctophidae
family Myliobatidae
family Mylodontidae
family Myricaceae
family Myristicaceae
family Myrmecophagidae
family Myrmeleontidae
family Myrsinaceae
family Myrtaceae
family Mysidae
family Mytilidae (current term)
family Myxinidae
family Myxobacteriaceae
family Myxophyceae
family Naiadaceae
family Najadaceae
family Naticidae
family Nautilidae
family Nepenthaceae
family Nephropsidae
family Nepidae
family Neritidae
family Nidulariaceae
family Nitrobacteriaceae
family Noctuidae

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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