Mytilidae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Mytilida
Family: Mytilidae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Mytilidae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Mytilidae in languages:

Afrikaans: Mossels
Chinese: 殼菜蛤科
Czech: slávkovití
Dutch: Mossels
English: True Mussels
Estonian: Rannakarplased
Finnish: sinisimpukat
German: Miesmuscheln
Japanese: イガイ科
Korean: 홍합과
Lithuanian: Midijiniai
Modern Greek: Μυτιλίδες
Russian: Митилиды
Russian: Мидии
Swedish: blåmusslor
Thai: หอยแมลงภู่ หอยกะพง ฯลฯ

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