Mussels are suspension feeders and most, such as Brachiodontes, live attached by a byssus to hard substrates such as rocks, wooden pilings or mangrove trunks and roots.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith