''Modiolarca'', is a
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of medium-sized
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bivalve
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s in the
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Mytilidae
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, the mussels.
Species within the genus ''Modiolarca''
* ''
Modiolarca bicolor''
* ''
Modiolarca cummingiana''
* ''
Modiolarca excavata''
* ''
Modiolarca gemma
''Modiolarca'', is a genus of medium-sized Marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs in the family (biology), Family Mytilidae, the mussels.
Species within the genus ''Modiolarca''
* ''Modiolarca bicolor''
* ''Modiolarca cummingiana''
* ''Modiolar ...
''
* ''
Modiolarca impacta''
(Hermann, 1782)
* ''
Modiolarca minuta''
* ''
Modiolarca prisca''
* ''
Modiolarca pusilla''
* ''
Modiolarca subpicta''
* ''
Modiolarca subtorta''
* ''
Modiolarca trapezina''
* ''
Modiolarca tumida''
References
DiscoverLifeGBIF*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
Mytilidae
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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