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Mytilus trossulus (foolish mussel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Mytilus trossulus, the bay mussel or foolish mussel, is a medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae. Mytilus trossulus is one of the three principal, closely related taxa in the Mytilus edulis complex of blue mussels, which collectively are widely distributed on the temperate to subarctic coasts the Northern Hemisphere, and often are dominant inhabitants on hard substrates of the intertidal and nearshore habitats.
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Predators

Enhydra lutris kenyoni (northern sea otter)[1]
Larus glaucescens (Glaucous-winged Gull)[2]
Melanitta fusca (White-winged Scoter)[3]
Melanitta perspicillata (Surf Scoter)[3]
Nucella lapillus (Atlantic dogwinkle)[4]

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Citations

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♦ 1Doroff, A., Badjeros, O., Corbell, K., Jenski, D. and Beaver, M. (2012). Assessment of Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) Diet in Kachemak Bay, Alaska (2008-2010). IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 29 (1): 15 - 23
♦ 2Wootton, J. Timothy. "Estimates and tests of per capita interaction strength: diet, abundance, and impact of intertidally foraging birds." Ecological Monographs 67.1 (1997): 45+. Academic OneFile. Web. 23 July 2010
♦ 3Prey selection and its relationship to habitat and foraging strategy of molting White-winged (Melanitta fusca) and Surf Scoters (M. perspicillata) in Puget Sound, WA, and the Strait of Georgia, BC., Heather J. Tschaekofske, Masters Thesis, Evergreen State College, 2010
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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