Bisexual Mussel

Semimytilus patagonicus

Classification

Class: Bivalvia
Order: Mytilida
Family: Mytilidae

Semimytilus algosus is a species of mussels. A common name for this species is Dwarf mussel. It is the first species where trioecy was reported in the phylum Mollusca.

Distribution

Bisexual Mussel — (c) Erasmo Macaya Horta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Erasmo Macaya Horta · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 47

Sources and credits

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