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Modiolus capax Conrad, 1837 
AphiaID: 506104

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 capax Conrad, 1837
Mytilus spatula Menke, 1848
Mytilus splendens Dunker, 1857
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]

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]

Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Modiolus capax
Modiolus capax
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506104
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2012-06-23 08:05:40Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Modiolus capax Conrad, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506104 on 2013-05-19
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