horse mussel

The horse mussel is a filter feeder.

Horse mussel or Horsemussel may refer to:

There are nationally important Horse Mussel and Brittlestar beds in the sea lochs.

The largest horse mussel bed in Scotland is near Noss Head in Caithness.

Atrina squamifera, one of several species known as the horse mussel, is a species of bivalve pen shell.

Pinnotheres atrinicola is a small crab that lives symbiotically in the horse mussel Atrina zelandica around New Zealand.

The seabed southwest of the Isle of Man is particularly noted for its rarities and diversity, as are the horse mussel beds of Strangford Lough.

There are several protected habitats located around the Skerries, notably for seagrass (Zostera marina) and horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus).

There are Horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus) beds both within Sullom Voe and on the Mainland coast near Colla Firth.

There are nationally important horse mussel and brittlestar beds in the sea lochs and in 2012 a bed of 100 million flame shells was found during a survey of Loch Alsh.

Some of the most significant for other wildlife are the reef-building species like the inshore horse mussel of Strangford Lough and the inter-tidal honeycomb worm of Morecambe Bay, Cumbria and Lancashire.

Larval development of the northern horse mussel Modiolus modiolus (L.), including a comparison with the larvae of Mytilus edulis L. as an aid in planktonic identification, Biological Bulletin, 150, 348-360.