Modulidae
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| Family: | Modulidae P. Fischer, 1884
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| about 6 extant species or more: cf. 16 species on WoRMS | |
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Modulidae, common name modulids,[2] is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[5]
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Modulidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera within the family Modulidae include:
- Aplodon Rafinesque, 1819[5][6]
- Conomodulus Landau, Vermeij & Reich, 2014[7][8]
- Indomodulus Landau, Vermeij & Reich, 2014[7]
- † Laevimodulus Landau, Vermeij & Reich, 2014[7]
- † Modulostylina Bandel, 2006 - with the only species Modulostylina waageni Kittl, 1884 - from Late Triassic[1]
- Modulus J. E. Gray, 1840 - the type genus of the family Modulidae[5]
- Trochomodulus Landau, Vermeij & Reich, 2014[7]
References
- ^ a b Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF[permanent dead link].
- ^ a b Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2011). Modulus Gray, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196286 on 2011-06-26
- ^ Template:Jp icon 黒田 徳米 Kuroda T. (1933). "日本産軟體動物の屬名 (2). A list of the genera of Japanese Mollusca (2)". The Venus 4(1): 44-54. page 50.
- ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Rafinesque (1819). J. de Physique 88: 425.
- ^ a b c d Bernard Landau; Geerat J. Vermeij; Sonja Reich (2014). "Classification of the Modulidae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea), with new genera and new fossil species from the Neogene of tropical America and Indonesia". Basteria. Journal of the Netherlands Malacological Society. 78 (1–3): 1–29.
- ^ Pierre Lozouet; Anouchka Krygelmans (2016). "A new species of Indo-Pacific Modulidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda)". Zootaxa. 4103 (2): 195–200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.12.
External links
Media related to Modulidae at Wikimedia Commons
