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Mytilidae

family of bivalves
Taxon taxon Q386633

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[5][6]
Different from
mussel[10]
Parent taxon
Mytiloidea[2]
Taxon common name
Mossels e.a., Miesmuscheln, klapavice[7][8][9]
Taxon name
Mytilidae[3]
Taxon rank
family[1]
Taxonomic type
Mytilus[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mytilidae ar بلحيات البحر البحرية de Miesmuscheln de Mytilidae fa دوکفه‌ای‌های میتیلیدا fi Mytilidae fi sinisimpukat fr moule hu kékkagylófélék hu Mytilidae ja イガイ科 ko 홍합과 pl Mytilidae pl omułkowate ro midie ro Mytilidae ru мидиевые ru мидии sv Blåmusslor sv Mytilidae
🔖 Identifiers · 45
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85089443
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata sh85089443 ndl_authorities sh85089441 edition 2026-10-01 · pdl-1.0
GND ID
4169783-2
OpenAlex ID
C2779321994
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Miesmuscheln Mytilus 1.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Mytilidae
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Mytilidae
BNCF Thesaurus ID
22979
BOLD Systems taxon ID
1862
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13507587d
Catalogue of Life ID
7NJX8
Dewey Decimal Classification
641.394
Dyntaxa ID
2000701
Show all 45 identifiers +33
EPPO Code
1MYTUF
Elhuyar ZTH ID
028292
Encyclopedia of Life ID
46466613
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/marine-mussel
Fossiilid.info ID
13404
Fossilworks taxon ID
61248
Freebase ID
/m/02qbsdt
GBIF taxon ID
3476
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2211577
INaturalist taxon ID
246k (51k–380k, n=3)
IRMNG ID
114458
ITIS TSN
79451
Interlingual Index ID
i45667
MeSH descriptor ID
D049879
MeSH tree code
B01.050.500.644.080.537
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779321994
NALT ID
54212
NBIC scientific name ID
108150
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0021055068
NCBI taxonomy ID
6547
NDL Authority ID
00576849
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
taxon/B0D460D2-3386-419A-A3DD-04CE6BFFC5FE
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007558136205171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
137332
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
f3b15231-5d12-4c22-9097-09e3dd102ec0
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
457964
Open Tree of Life ID
1025541
Topic's main category
Category:Mytilidae
UBio ID
510292
UMLS CUI
C0998129
WoRMS-ID for taxa
211
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01966371-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/99342425-0acf-41a9-99a4-e20efe252719

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 25
Mytilus, Lithophaga, Modiolus, Perna, Brachidontes, Musculus, Septifer, Bathymodiolus +17 more
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
mussel
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Mytiloidea
Taxon rank 1
family
Taxonomic type 1
Mytilus
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mytilidae
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mytilidae
← Different from 1
mussel
← Taxon known by this common name 1
mussel
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . Trivialnamen für Mollusken des Meeres und Brackwassers in Deutschland (Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Scaphopoda et Cephalopoda). wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual Index ID → i45667
    WordNet 3.1 Synset ID → 01966371-n
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  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Instance of → —
    Taxonomic type → Mytilus
    Different from → mussel
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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