Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytiloida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Mytilidae

Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Modiola Lamarck, 1801 synonym
Volsella Scopoli, 1777 synonym; nom. inval.

Children

Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848)
Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Modiolus gallicus (Dautzenberg, 1895)
Modiolus lulat (Dautzenberg, 1891)
Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Modiolus stultorum (Jousseaume, 1893)

Literature

original description

Lamarck [J.-B. M. de] 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. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213

additional source

Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). 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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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

loading

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Modiolus Lamarck, 1799. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138223

Image

loading

Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

no data

Provided by

logo erms

GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138223

Last modified

2012-06-23 by Philippe Bouchet

Your feedback

click here

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Your e-mail address:

Your message: