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The black mussel is a filter feeder that eats floating scraps of algae and phytoplankton. It is threatened by the invasion of the fast-growing and hardy Mediterranean mussel, which outcompetes it for space. Particulate organic matter is the major food source of many filter-feeding bivalves including C. meridionalis.
Black mussel Choromytilus meridionalis (Namibia to Tsitsikamma) [2] [3] Half-hairy mussel Gregariella petagnae (Namibia to central KwaZulu-Natal) [2] [4] Ear mussel Modiolus auriculatus (Port Elizabeth to Mozambique) [2] Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Orange river to Eastern Cape) [2] [3] Brown mussel Perna perna (Cape Point to ...
Black mussel is a common name for several mussels and may refer to: Choromytilus meridionalis, native to southern Africa; Mytilus galloprovincialis;
Mytilopsis sallei, the black-striped mussel, is a small marine bivalve mollusc in the family Dreissenidae, the false mussels. It is closely related and ecologically similar to the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha. It is also considered as highly invasive species.
Mussel (/ ˈ m ʌ s ə l /) is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other edible clams, which are often more or less rounded or oval.
Musculus niger, or the black mussel, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. [1] [2] It can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, eastern Pacific Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. [2] Along the Atlantic coast of North America, it ranges from the Arctic Ocean to North Carolina. [3]
The mussel is easily recognized by its brown color but its identifying characteristic is the "divided posterior retractor mussel scar". Its pitted resillal ridge also differentiates the mussel from other bivalves. Similar species include the European mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, and the black mussel, Choromytilus meridionalis.
Mytella strigata is a bivalve, commonly known as the charru mussel or charrua mussel. [2] This species was described by Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley based on a specimen from the Philippines. [1] It was found in Central and South America and by Alcide d'Orbigny, a French naturalist, in 1842, where it was assigned the synonym Mytilus charruanus.