Brachidontes

Brachidontes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytiloida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

Brachidontes is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.^[1]

Selected species

Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758) — scorched mussel
Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767) — yellow mussel

References

^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Altantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 17.