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Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848) 
AphiaID: 140463

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Modiolus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Modiolus Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
taxa
  Limnoperna hepatica (Gould, 1850)
Modiola auriculata Krauss
Modiola cymbula Preston, 1908
Modiola rufanensis Turton, 1932
Modiolus auriculatus var. aurantius Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919
Modiolus semifuscus Lamarck
Mytilus hepaticus Gould, 1850
Volsella agripetus Iredale, 1939
Sources  basis of record: 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.  [details]

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 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagasar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1-52, 4 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details]

basis of record: Arnaud, P.M. (1971). Les Moulieres a Mytilus et Aulacomya des Iles Kerguelen (Sud de l'Ocean Indien). C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris 272, 1423-1225. [details]

additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Beu A.G. 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to recent bivalves. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 36(4): 151-338.
page(s): 191 [details] [view taxon]


Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English ear mussel  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Variety Modiolus auriculatus var. aurantius Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919 accepted as Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848)
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Chagos [details]
East Coast of South Africa [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Spelling: spelled M. auriculata in Drivas & Jay, 1988. [details]
Image 
Modiolus auriculatus
Modiolus auriculatus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140463
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140463 on 2013-05-20
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