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Mytilus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 541606

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Mytilus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
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Accepted name  Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Eumodiolus Ihering, 1900
Modiolus Lamarck, 1799
Volsella Scopoli, 1777
Parent Mytilus 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 [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]

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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Variety Mytilus modiolus var. ovata Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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. (2013). Mytilus modiolus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=541606 on 2013-05-20
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