Modulus (gastropod)
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| Two views of a beachworn shell of Modulus tectum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Modulidae |
| Genus: | Modulus J. E. Gray, 1840[1] |
Modulus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Modulidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Modulus include:
- Modulus ambiguus Dautzenberg, 1910
- Modulus bayeri Petuch, 2001
- Modulus bermontianus Petuch, 1994
- Modulus calusa Petuch, 1988
- Modulus carchedonius (Lamarck, 1822)
- Modulus guernei Dautzenberg, 1900
- Modulus kaicherae Petuch, 1987
- Modulus lindae Petuch, 1987
- Modulus modulus (Linnaeus, 1758) - the type species, known as the "button snail"
- Modulus nodosus Macsotay & Campos, 2001
- Modulus pacei Petuch, 1987
- Modulus tectum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Modulus turbinoides (Locard, 1897)
References
- ↑ Gray J. E. (1840). Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., ed. 42, 147 [n.n.]; 1842, Syn. Brit. Mus., ed. 44, 60.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
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