Modelia is a genus of medium to large sea snails in which the shell has a pearly interior and the snail has a calcareous operculum; marine gastropod mollusks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.Bouchet, P. (2014). Modelia Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413354 on 2014-09-02
Species Species within the genus Modelia include: Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784) Species brought into synonymy Modelia guttata A. Adams, 1863: synonym of Bolma guttata (A. Adams, 1863)
References
Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592
Further reading Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979