Mutela
Appearance
Mutela | |
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Mutela bourguignati | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Iridinidae |
Genus: | Mutela Scopoli, 1777 |
Mutela is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Iridinidae. Species in this genus have actual siphons, rather than unfused apertures, as do most other freshwater mussels.[1]
Species
[edit]Species in the genus Mutela include:
- Mutela alata (Lea, 1864)
- Mutela bourguignati
- Mutela dubia
- Mutela legumen
- Mutela nilotica
- Mutela rostrata
References
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- ^ Mussel of the Month, March 2006. The Mussel Project. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.