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

Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Modiola*	[sic]	synonym
*Modiola (Gibbomodiola)*	Sacco, 1898	synonym
*Volsella*	Scopoli, 1777	synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Modiolus adriaticus Lamarck, 1819
Modiolus auriculatus Krauss, 1848
Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Modiolus lulat (Dautzenberg, 1891)
Modiolus martorelli Hidalgo, 1877
Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91.
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	Johnson, C. W. (1931). Modiolus Lam., 1799, versus Volsella Scop., 1777. The Nautilus. 45(1): 33-34.
additional source	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
status source	ICZN. (1955). Opinion 325. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic name Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 (class Pelecypoda). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 9 (16): 251–266.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Modiolus Lamarck, 1799. 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:138223