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unusual facts about Mussel


Amur Bitterling

Mussels form an essential part of its reproductive system, with bitterling eggs being laid inside them.


Bathymodiolus childressi

The snail Bathynerita naticoidea can detect beds of the mussel Bathymodiolus childressi.

"Deep-sea hydrocarbon seep gastropod Bathynerita naticoidea responds to cues from the habitat-providing mussel Bathymodiolus childressi".

Evasterias troscheli

Petroleum hydrocarbons, such as those released as a result of the Exxon Valdez spillage, have a greater effect on the feeding and growth of the mottled star than on one of its main prey species, the mussel Mytilus edulis.

Fritz Haas

Haas' specialty involved the study of land and freshwater snails, as well as research of the family Unionidae (freshwater mussels).

Hay Swamp

Endangered fish and mussel species present in Hay Swamp include, Eastern Sand Darter, Greenside Darter, Northern Riffleshell, Snuffbox,Wavy-rayed Lampmussel, Rainbow Mussel and Kidneyshell.

Jamie Bulloch

Recent literary translations include The Sweetness of Life by Paulus Hochgatterer (MacLehose Press), Ruth Maier's Diary (Harvill/Secker), and three titles for Peirene Press: Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius, Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe, and The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke.

Lottia digitalis

In California, young limpets, up to ten millimetres in diameter, often live on the opercular plates of gooseneck barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus and on mussel shells.

Mussel Shoals

Mussel Shoals is a misspelling of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Oval pigtoe

Historically, this mussel was very abundant in the Flint River in Georgia, the Chattahoochee River in Georgia and Alabama, the Chipola River in Alabama and Florida, the Ochlockonee River in Georgia and Florida, the Apalachicola River and Suwanee/Santa Fe Rivers in Florida, and Econfina Creek in Florida.

Port Chalmers

Prior to the local body reorganisation in the 1980s Port Chalmers was made up of several suburbs, as well as the central area, Roseneath, Blanket Bay, Upper Junction, Brick Hill, Sawyers Bay, Mussel Bay, Upper Port Chalmers, Dalkeith, Careys Bay, Reynoldstown, Deborah Bay, Hamilton Bay, Waipuna Bay, Te Ngaru, and Aramoana, as well as the outlying townships of Long Beach, Purakanui and several other smaller nearby villages and farmsteads.

Reef starfish

Found throughout New Zealand, S. australis is a keystone species in both the North and South Islands, playing an important role in mussel predation.

Torulosa

Epioblasma torulosa, species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels

Trichomya

The hairy mussel is found around the coasts of Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia as far north as Cairns.


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