Modiolus, the horsemussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
Fossil record Fossils of species within this very ancient genus can be found in sediments from the Devonian period to recent (age range: 409.1 to 0.0 Ma).Fossilworks
Species
Species within the genus Modiolus include:WoRMS
Modiolus adriaticus (Lamarck, 1819) Modiolus albicostus (Lamarck, 1819) Modiolus americanus (Leach, 1815) - tulip mussel Modiolus areolatus (Gould, 1850) Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848) Modiolus aurum Osorio Ruiz, 1979 Modiolus barbatus (Linnaeus, 1758) - bearded horsemussel Modiolus capax (Conrad, 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 III, 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 (Linnaeus, 1758) - 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, 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, 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)
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