WoRMS taxon details
Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140467
AphiaID: 140467
| 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 |
Modiola gigantea Clessin, 1889 Modiola grandis Philippi, 1844 Modiola modiolus Modiola papuana Lamarck, 1801 Modiola vulgaris Fleming, 1828 Modiolus kurilensis F. R. Bernard, 1983 Musculus modulus Röding, 1798 Mytilus curtus Pennant, 1777 Mytilus curvirostrus da Costa, 1778 Mytilus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758 Mytilus modiolus var. ovata Jeffreys, 1864 Mytilus umbilicatus Pennant, 1777 Volsella difficilis Kuroda & Habe, 1950 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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: 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] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Malacolog - Western atlantic gastropod database., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Biscay (not valid) [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Brandy Cove [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Panne [details] Digby [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kerkennah Islands [details] L'Etang [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] Minas Basin [details] Navy Island [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Modiolicola insignis Aurivillius, 1882 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (132 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 5 to 15 cm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to New Jersey; Europe; Arctic seas to San Pedro, California [details] Distribution: The appearance of Modiolus modiolus at the Belgian coast was very doubtful according to Kerckhof (1980); in contrast with the reports of this species at the Hinder Banks. [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140467 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140467 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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