WoRMS name details
Modiolus gallicus (Dautzenberg, 1895)
181283 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181283)
unaccepted
Species
Modiola gallica Dautzenberg, 1895 · unaccepted
Modiola modiolus var. minor Cailliaud, 1865 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Modiola gallica Dautzenberg, 1895) Dautzenberg, P. (1895). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de <i>Modiola</i> provenant du littoral occidental de la France. <em>Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes.</em> 25: 97-99, plate 1., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42983353
page(s): 97-99; pl. 1 [details]
page(s): 97-99; pl. 1 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Modiolus gallicus (Dautzenberg, 1895). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181283 on 2026-01-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Modiola gallica Dautzenberg, 1895) Dautzenberg, P. (1895). Description d'une nouvelle espèce de <i>Modiola</i> provenant du littoral occidental de la France. <em>Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes.</em> 25: 97-99, plate 1., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42983353
page(s): 97-99; pl. 1 [details]
page(s): 97-99; pl. 1 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Nolf, F.; Verstraeten, J.; Hubrecht, S. (2019). <i>Modiolus gallicus</i> (Dautzenberg, 1895) a cryptic mussel from the NE Atlantic appears merely to be a juvenile form of <i>Modiolus modiolus</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). <em>Neptunea.</em> 15 (1): 7-35. [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
