Modiolus (genus)
| Modiolus Temporal range: Devonian–Recent | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Pteriomorphia |
| Order: | Mytiloida |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: | Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 |
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Modiolus, the horsemussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
Species
Species within the genus Modiolus include:[1]
- Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1819)
- Modiolus albicostus (Lamarck, 1819)
- Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815) - tulip mussel
- Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - bearded horsemussel
- Modiolus capax (Conrad, 1837) - fat horsemussel
- Modiolus carpenteri (Soot-Ryen, 1963) - California horsemussel
- Modiolus demissus
- Modiolus eiseni (Strong and Hertlein, 1937) - eisen horsemussel
- Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) - northern horsemussel
- Modiolus neglectus (Soot-Ryen, 1955) - neglected horsemussel
- Modiolus phaseolinus
- Modiolus rectus (Conrad, 1837) - straight horsemussel
- Modiolus sacculifer (S. S. Berry, 1953) - bag horsemussel
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