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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 541606

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPteriomorphia (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytiloida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytiloidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus modiolus (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEumodiolus Ihering, 1900
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus Lamarck, 1799
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVolsella Scopoli, 1777
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus Linnaeus, 1758
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
page(s): 706 [details]

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Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus modiolus var. cylindrica Marshall, 1893 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus modiolus var. gigas Marshall, 1893 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMytilus modiolus var. ovata Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorModiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (275 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo CLEMAM 
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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNomenclature ICZN opinion 325: specific name of type species of Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:541606
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Date   action   by
2010-11-10 15:53:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-11-10 16:07:33Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2014). Mytilus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=541606 on 2015-02-28
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