Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Mytilida > Mytilidae > Brachidontes > Brachidontes virgiliae

Brachidontes virgiliae (brack-water mussel)

Synonyms: Musculus virgiliae

Predators

Chelon richardsonii (Mullet)[1]
Gerres methueni (Evenfin pursemouth)[2]
Oreochromis mossambicus (Mozambique mouth-breeder)[3]
Rhabdosargus sarba (Yellowfin bream)[3]
Rhabdosargus thorpei (Bigeye stumpnose)[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1The Fish Community of the Swartvlei Estuary and the Influence of Food Availability on Resource Utilization, ALAN K. WHITFIELD, Estuaries Vol. 11, No. 3, p. 160-170 September 1988
♦ 2THE FEEDING ECOLOGY OF GERREIDAE (TELEOSTEI) IN THE KOSI SYSTEM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR SEASONAL DIET, D.P. Cyrus and S.J.M. Blaber, The Lammergeyer 32, January 1984, p. 35-49
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0