Mytilus
Mytilus est cosmopolitum genus edulium aquae salsae familiae Mytilidarum molluscorum bivalvium quae magnitudine a media ad magnam crescunt.

Species
Inter species intra genus Mytilum sunt:
 Mytilus californianus Conrad, 1837 
 Mytilus coruscus Gould, 1861 
 "Mytilus edulis complex":
 Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758 
 Mytilus edulis platensis d'Orbigny, 1846 = Mytilus chilensis (Hupé, 1854)
 Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 
 Mytilus trossulus Gould, 1850

Usus humanus
Mytilus late pro cibo et in maricultura adhibetur. Exempli gratia, in California, Mytili a litoralibus Indis Americanis paene 12 000 annos consumpti sunt.

Notae

 
 J. H. McDonald, R. Seed and R.K. Koehn (1991) "Allozymes and morphometric characters of three species of Mytilus in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres." Marine Biology 111: 323–33. 

Genera animalium
Mytilinae
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1798