| Mytella | |
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| Mytella guyanensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Superfamily: | Mytiloidea |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: | Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Modiola guyanensis Lamarck, 1819 | |
Mytella is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Arcuatulinae of the family Mytilidae, the mussels.[2]
- ^ Soot-Ryen, T. (1955) A report on the family Mytilidae (Pelecypoda). Allan Hancock publications 20, University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles, 174 pp., 10 pls.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2016-11-05.