Mutable Mussel

Brachidontes mutabilis

• Group: Other

This small mussel anchors itself with tough byssal threads to rocks, boulders and pier pilings on exposed shores. It crowds in among beds of other mussels in the intertidal, filtering plankton from the wash of every wave.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Mytilida › Mytilidae › Brachidontes

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 505989.