WoRMS taxon details
Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815)
AphiaID: 420705
AphiaID: 420705
| 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 americana Leach, 1815 Modiola tulipa Lamarck, 1819 Modiola tulipa var. nigra Calkins, 1878 Modiolus pseudotulipus Olsson, 1961 Modiolus tulipa Lamarck, 1819 Musculus papuanus Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [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] 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. [details] from synonym: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] San Andres [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420705 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420705 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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