MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

ERMS taxon details

Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

AphiaID

138223 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138223)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Mytilus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Modiolinae G. Termier & H. Termier, 1950

Orig. name

Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Synonymised names

Modiola Lamarck, 1801 · unaccepted (an incorrect subsequent spelling...)

an incorrect subsequent spelling of Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Volsella Scopoli, 1777 · unaccepted (invalid: suppressed by ICZN Opinion325)

Direct children (15)
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Species Modiolus adriaticus Lamarck, 1819
Species Modiolus auriculatus Krauss, 1848
Species Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Modiolus lulat (Dautzenberg, 1891)
Species Modiolus martorelli Hidalgo, 1877
Species Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Modiolus agglutinans Cantraine, 1835 accepted as Lioberus agglutinans (Cantraine, 1835)
Species Modiolus barbatellus Cantraine, 1835 accepted as Gregariella petagnae (Scacchi, 1832)
Species Modiolus costulatus Risso, 1826 accepted as Musculus costulatus (Risso, 1826)
Species Modiolus demissus (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn, 1817) (unaccepted combination)
Species Modiolus gallicus (Dautzenberg, 1895) accepted as Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Modiolus phaseolinus R. A. Philippi, 1844 accepted as Modiolula phaseolina (R. A. Philippi, 1844) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Modiolus stultorum (Jousseaume, 1893) accepted as Jolya letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1877
Species Modiolus subpictus Cantraine, 1835 accepted as Musculus subpictus (Cantraine, 1835)
Species Modiolus sulcatus Risso, 1826 accepted as Gregariella petagnae (Scacchi, 1832)

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 87-88 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Modiolus Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138223 on 2023-06-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Modiolus Lamarck, 1799. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138223 on 2023-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2012-06-23 08:05:40Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2019-07-31 03:29:30Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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original description Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 87-88 [details]

original description (of Modiola Lamarck, 1801) Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

original description (of Volsella Scopoli, 1777) Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle. Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827
page(s): 397. [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in RoR) [details] Available for editors

additional source Johnson, C. W. (1931). Modiolus Lam., 1799, versus Volsella Scop., 1777. The Nautilus. 45(1): 33-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8527858 [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]

status source ICZN. (1955). Opinion 325. Validation, under the Plenary Powers, of the generic name Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 (class Pelecypoda). Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 9 (16): 251–266., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34610348 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (from synonym Modiola Lamarck, 1801)
To Genbank (from synonym Modiola Lamarck, 1801)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 101686)
To ITIS


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