The best opener we sampled, clean, shiny black mussels in a bowl of light tomato broth, proved a plain but competent effort.

The black mussel has similar shape and size although it lacks the distinguishable pitted resillal ridge.

The rocks on the island are covered with black mussels.

The black mussel, Choromytilus meridionalis, is a species of bivalve.

It is a shiny black mussel which grows clustered in groups on rocks and in sandy areas.

The black mussel is a filter feeder that eats floating scraps of algae and phytoplankton.

Musculus niger, or the little black mussel, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.

Bloubergstrand has a long white sand beach on the Atlantic ocean, with a few rocky outcrops where black mussels are found.

The sea coast seems to have moved up the river, as there are fragments from black mussels, granite limpets, and Cape fur seals.

I gathered black mussels, and seaweed to steam them in.