Modiolus (bivalve)
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Mytilida |
Family: | Mytilidae |
Genus: | Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 |
Type species | |
Modiolus modiolus[1] | |
Species | |
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Modiolus, the horsemussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
Fossil record[]
Fossils of species within this very ancient genus can be found in sediments from the Devonian period to recent (age range: 409.1 to 0.0 Ma).[2]
Species[]
Species within the genus Modiolus include:[3][4]
- Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1819)
- Modiolus albicostus (Lamarck, 1819)
- Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815) - tulip mussel
- Modiolus areolatus (Gould, 1850)
- Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848)
- Osorio Ruiz, 1979
- Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - bearded horsemussel
- Modiolus capax (Conrad, 1837) - fat horsemussel
- (Soot-Ryen, 1963) - California horsemussel
- Klappenbach, 1966
- (Philippi, 1847)
- Ockelmann and Cedhagen, 2019
- (Sowerby, 1915)
- (Strong and Hertlein, 1937) - eisen horsemussel
- Macsotay & Campos, 2001
- (Dautzenberg, 1895)
- (Dunker, 1856)
- F. R. Bernard, 1983
- (Dautzenberg, 1891)
- (Nomura & Hatai, 1940)
- Pilsbry, 1921
- Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) - northern horsemussel
- (Röding, 1798)
- (Soot-Ryen, 1955) - neglected horsemussel
- Ockelmann, 1983
- (Oyama, 1950)
- (d'Orbigny, 1842)
- (Verco, 1907)
- Laseron, 1956
- Modiolus philippinarum (Hanley, 1843)
- (Dunker, 1868)
- (Conrad, 1837) - straight horsemussel
- (Philippi, 1847)
- (S. S. Berry, 1953) - bag horsemussel
- Beauperthuy, 1967
- (Jousseaume, 1893)
- (Reeve, 1857)
- Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935
- Cosel, 1995
References[]
- ^ a b Philippe Bouchet; Serge Gofas (2012). "Modiolus Lamarck, 1799". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ Fossilworks
- ^ "Modiolus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ WoRMS
External links[]
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Categories:
- Modiolus (bivalve)
- Bivalve genera
- Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Extant Devonian first appearances
- Devonian genus first appearances
- Bivalve stubs