''Modiolus'', the horsemussels, are a
genus
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of medium-sized
marine bivalve
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Mytilidae
The Mytilidae are a family (biology), family of small to large Marine life, marine and Brackish water, brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order (biology), order Mytilida. One of the genera, ''Limnoperna fortunei, Limnoperna'', even inhabits f ...
.
Fossil record
Fossils of species within this very ancient genus can be found in sediments from the
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...
period to recent (age range: 409.1 to 0.0 Ma).
File:Modiolus bipartitus 01.jpg, ''Modiolus bipartitus''
Middle Jurassic
File:Modiolus giganteus 01.jpg, ''Modiolus giganteus''
Middle Jurassic
Species
Species within the genus ''Modiolus'' include:
* ''
Modiolus adriaticus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1819)
* ''
Modiolus albicostus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1819)
* ''
Modiolus americanus''
(Leach, 1815) - tulip mussel
* ''
Modiolus areolatus''
(Gould, 1850)
* ''
Modiolus auriculatus''
(Krauss, 1848)
* ''
Modiolus aurum''
Osorio Ruiz, 1979
* ''
Modiolus barbatus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) - bearded horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus capax''
(Conrad
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, 1837) - fat horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus carpenteri''
(Soot-Ryen, 1963) - California horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus carvalhoi''
Klappenbach, 1966
* ''
Modiolus cecillii''
(Philippi, 1847)
* ''
Modiolus cimbricus''
Ockelmann and Cedhagen, 2019
* ''
Modiolus comptus''
( Sowerby, 1915)
* ''
Modiolus concentrice''
( Roemer, 1849)[Roemer, F. (1849). Texas : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes nach eigener Beobachtung. A. Marcus.]
* ''
Modiolus demissus''
* ''
Modiolus eiseni''
(Strong and Hertlein, 1937) - eisen horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus ficoides''
Macsotay & Campos, 2001
* ''
Modiolus gallicus''
(Dautzenberg, 1895)
* ''
Modiolus gubernaculum''
(Dunker, 1856)
* ''
Modiolus kurilensis''
F. R. Bernard, 1983
* ''
Modiolus lulat''
(Dautzenberg, 1891)
* ''
Modiolus margaritaceus''
(Nomura & Hatai, 1940)
* ''
Modiolus matris''
Pilsbry, 1921
* ''
Modiolus modiolus
''Modiolus modiolus'', common name northern horsemussel (Scottish Gaelic: , Scots language, Scots: ), is a species of marine (ocean), marine Bivalvia, bivalve mollusk in the family Mytilidae.
Description
''Modiolus modiolus'' is a large mussel ...
''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) - northern horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus modulaides''
( Röding, 1798)
* ''
Modiolus neglectus''
(Soot-Ryen, 1955) - neglected horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus nicklesi''
Ockelmann, 1983
* ''
Modiolus nipponicus''
(Oyama, 1950)
* ''
Modiolus patagonicus''
(d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropol ...
, 1842)
* ''
Modiolus Pedernalis''
(Roemer, 1849)
* ''
Modiolus penetectus''
(Verco, 1907)
* ''
Modiolus peronianus''
Laseron, 1956
* ''
Modiolus phaseolinus''
* ''
Modiolus philippinarum''
(Hanley, 1843)
* ''
Modiolus plumescens''
(Dunker, 1868)
* ''
Modiolus rectus''
(Conrad
Conrad may refer to:
People
* Conrad (name)
* Saint Conrad (disambiguation)
Places
United States
* Conrad, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Conrad, Iowa, a city
* Conrad, Montana, a city
* Conrad Glacier, Washington
Elsewher ...
, 1837) - straight horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus rumphii''
(Philippi, 1847)
* ''
Modiolus sacculifer''
(S. S. Berry, 1953) - bag horsemussel
* ''
Modiolus squamosus''
Beauperthuy, 1967
* ''
Modiolus stultorum''
(Jousseaume, 1893)
* ''
Modiolus traillii''
( Reeve, 1857)
* ''
Modiolus tumbezensis''
Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935
* ''
Modiolus verdensis''
Cosel, 1995
See also
*
Modiolus (disambiguation) Modiolus can refer to:
* Modiolus (cochlea)
The modiolus is a conical shaped central axis in the cochlea. The modiolus consists of spongy bone and the cochlea turns approximately 2.75 times around the central axis in humans. The cochlear nerve, a ...
References
External links
Biolib
Bivalve genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Extant Devonian first appearances
Devonian genus first appearances
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