Mytilus

NOUN
  1. type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels
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How To Use Mytilus In A Sentence

  • Arcomytilus has a truncated posterior flank between two low, obtuse ridges not found on Nodomytilus.
  • Further details on byssus formation mostly in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, can be found in numerous reviews on the subject.
  • [MYTILUS INCRASSATUS] Shell nacreous, thick, somewhat inflated, marked with concentric lines of growth; anterior margin arched accuminate; posterior rounded, somewhat dilated; umbones acute. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • In large part, moving food along the alimentary tract is a matter of smooth muscle functioning, and Pavlov decided to investigate the byssus retractor, the smooth muscle that Mytilus edulis, the common mussel, uses to close its shell. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
  • Other falcate mylilids like Lycettia, Coxesia and Falcimytilus all lack radial or divaricating or half-divaricating surface sculpture and have a more truncated anterior shell flank with a well-defined lunule.
  • The Jurassic Mytilus furcatus Münster has finely nodose, moderately divaricating costae over the whole shell.
  • With mytilin extracted from the common mussel (Mytilus edulis), the incubation period is a fortnight. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
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