| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 |
| Sources | |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Dutch |
paardenmossel |
[details] |
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English |
horse mussel |
[details] |
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English |
northern horsemussel |
[details] |
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French |
grande moule |
[details] |
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German |
grose Miesmuschel |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Feedingtype | |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of | |
Modiolicola insignis Aurivillius, 1882 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (132 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
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| Note | |
Distribution: The appearance of Modiolus modiolus at the Belgian coast was very doubtful according to Kerckhof (1980); in contrast with the reports of this species at the Hinder Banks. [details]
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| Images | | 
Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES ( )
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Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758)
added on 2006-08-10 - author: IMARES ()
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Modiolus modiolus (horse mussel)
added on 2011-11-13 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozeres ( )
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Modiolus modiolus - small
added on 2012-05-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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Modiolus modiolus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ( )
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Modiolus modiolus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140467 |
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| | | Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140467 on 2013-05-22 |
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