Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Modiolidae > Subfamily Modiolidae incertae sedis > Genus Modiolula

Modiolula phaseolina (R. A. Philippi, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Modiolula*	Sacco, 1898	accepted genus name
*Modiola (Modiolula)*	Sacco, 1898	synonym

Species group names

*Modiola imberbis*	Brusina, 1866	synonym
*Modiola laevis*	Danilo & Sandri, 1856	synonym
*Modiola phaseolina*	(R. A. Philippi, 1844)	synonym
*Modiola phaseolina var. lamarckiana*	Locard, 1888	synonym
*Modiola phaseolina var. strangulata*	Locard, 1888	synonym
*Modiolus phaseolinus*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kleine paardemossel sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: bean horse mussel; bean mussel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

German: Bohnenförmige Miesmuschel; Bohnenmiesmuschel

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
additional source	Beu, A. G. (2004). Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. i>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Modiolula phaseolina (R. A. Philippi, 1844). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140461