Purple Mussel

Perumytilus purpuratus

• Group: Other

A small mussel of rocky shores that crowds between and beneath rocks and into crevices, often packed against other mussels. It also colonises the holdfasts of giant kelp forests, and people gather it for food.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 600490.