WoRMS

MolluscaBase taxon details

Modiolus capax Conrad, 1837

AphiaID

506104 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506104)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Modiola capax Conrad, 1837

Synonymised names

Modiola capax Conrad, 1837 · unaccepted

Mytilus spatula Menke, 1848 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Modiola capax Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 242-243 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in San Diego Bay

type locality contained in San Diego Bay [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Modiolus capax Conrad, 1837. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506104 on 2025-06-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

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

2016-02-16 14:51:05Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2022-03-28 18:03:25Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Modiola capax Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 242-243 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 116, pl. 39 [details]

additional source Gutierrez-Galindo, E. A., Flores-Munoz, G., Villaescusa-Celaya, J. & Arreola-Chimal, A. (1994). Spatial and temporal variation of arsenic and selenium in a biomonitor (Modiolus capax) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 28(5): 330-333. [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. [details]