Outside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 42mm.
Mytilus galloprovincialis
<em>Mytilus galloprovincialis</em> (Lamarck, 1819)
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 95mm.
Inside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 95mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 85mm.
Outside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 54mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 54mm.
Outside of right valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 55mm.
Outside of left valve
Species
Photographer / copyright holder
Steve Wilkinson
Specimen collected by TGW Fowler from Padstow habour wall, Cornwall. Length = 55mm.
Mytilus galloprovincialis
Distribution and status
Occassional
Distributed from the south of Britain to the Iberian Peninsula and into the Mediterranean.
Ecology and behaviour
Lives attached by byssus threads to any suitable hard substrate. Feeds by filtering phytoplankton.
Similar species
Key identification features
- Umbones turn downwards to make the basal line of the shell concave
- Mantle edge is dark blue or purple
Taxon version key
[NBNSYS0000176603]
Sort order
9280
Taxonomic group
Marine bivalve
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Solid wedge shpaed shell up to about 10cm in length. The outside is purple, blue or brown in colour; the inside is pearl white bordered with purple or blue. The surface is sculptured with concentric rings.