Mytilus galloprovincialis

• class BIVALVIA
  • undorder Autobranchia
    • order Cyrtodontida
      • fam Mytilidae
        • Mytilus galloprovincialis

Some discrete phenotic sign of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lam.

Meiotic chromosoms of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lam.

Photo by V.Ivanov

Hystological preparats of gonads Mytilus galloprovincialis Lam.

by A.Pirkova

• Male gonad prior spawning
• Female gonad
• Mussel hermaphrodite with synchronous maturation (in one or different acinus) of female and male sex cells (OÖ - oocytes; ÑÏ - spermatozoids)
• Mussel chromosoms, metaphase I.

Parasites and Commensals:

from A.Gaevskaya, V.Gubanob, V.Machkevsky, at all
Parasites and Commensals of Mytilus Galloprovincialis Lmk in the Black Sea
Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1990, 132p.

• Hexamita nelsoni Schlicht et Mackin, 1968
• Nematopsis legeri
• Steinhausia mytilovum (Field, 1924)
• Ancistrum mytili (Quennerstedt,1967) Maupas,1883
• Peniculistoma mytili (De Morgan,1925)
• Gargarius gargarius (Chatton et Lwoff,1934)
• Cliona vastifica Hancock,1848
• Urastoma cyprinae Dorler,1900
• Proctoeces maculatus Looss,1901
• Parvatrema duboisi (Dollfus,1923) Bartoli, 1974
• Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
• Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer,1902
• Petricola lithophoga (Petrius, 1786)
• Gastrochaena dubia (Pennant, 1777)

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