Mutela is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. Species in this genus have actual siphons, rather than unfused apertures, as do most other freshwater mussels.
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