Brachidontes

Brachidontes is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae.^[1]

Brachidontes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Mytilida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

Species

The following are the species currently included in Brachidontes:^[2][3]

• Brachidontes adamsianus (Dunker, 1857) — Adams mussel
• Brachidontes crebristriatus (Conrad, 1837)
• Brachidontes darwinianus (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Brachidontes domingensis (Lamarck, 1819) — Santo Domingo mussel
• Brachidontes dunkeri M. Huber, 2015
• Brachidontes erosus (Lamarck, 1819)
• Brachidontes esmeraldensis (Olsson, 1961)
• Brachidontes evansi (E. A. Smith, 1903)
• Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758) — scorched mussel
• Brachidontes granoliratus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1909)
• Brachidontes granulatus (Hanley, 1843)
• Brachidontes houstonius Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
• Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767) — yellow mussel
• Brachidontes mutabilis (Gould, 1861) — mutable mussel
• Brachidontes niger (Gmelin, 1791)
• Brachidontes pharaonis (Fischer P., 1870)
• Brachidontes playasensis (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935)
• Brachidontes puniceus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Brachidontes puntarenensis (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932)
• Brachidontes rodriguezii (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Brachidontes rostratus (Dunker, 1857)
• Brachidontes sculptus (Iredale, 1939)
• Brachidontes semilaevis (Menke, 1848)
• Brachidontes setiger (Dunker, 1857)
• Brachidontes striatulus (Hanley, 1843)
• Brachidontes subramosus (Hanley, 1843)
• Brachidontes subsulcatus (Dunker, 1857)
• Brachidontes undulatus (Dunker, 1857)
• Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819)
• Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848) — variable mussel; synonym: Brachidontes semistriatus
• Brachidontes virgiliae (Barnard, 1964)
• Brachidontes willetsi (Marwick, 1928)