| During winter months and aestivation periods, mussels will burrow into the substrate until only the apertures are protruding. |
| Mussels were removed using scrapers, a process that necessarily also removed most acorn barnacles intermingled among the mussels. |
| Recently I obtained two rather nice swan mussels for my freshwater aquarium. |
| Shellfish such as oysters, mussels, cockles, winkles, whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores. |
| Local marine reserves offer tide pools full of starfish, crabs, mussels, abalone, and sea anemones. |
| Our examples are taken from recent investigations of two key components of rocky intertidal communities, mussels and whelks. |
