Mutela

Mutela
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Unionoida
Superfamily: Etherioidea
Family: Iridinidae
Subfamily: Iridininae
Genus: Mutela
Scopoli, 1777

Mutela is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Species in this genus have actual siphons, rather than unfused apertures, as do most other freshwater mussels.[1]

Species

Species in the genus Mutela include:

  • Mutela alata
  • Mutela bourguignati
  • Mutela dubia
  • Mutela legumen
  • Mutela nilotica
  • Mutela rostrata

References

  1. Mussel of the Month, March 2006. The Mussel Project. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.


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