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Modiolus hanleyi

Description

Modiolus hanleyi (Dunker, 1882)

Habitat. Lives in a nest of coral fragments and sand aggregated by fine byssus threads, semi-buried in areas of sand and coral rubble.

Distribution. Dead shells can be found throughout the lagoon especially around Passe Grand Bassin but the only living example was found among rubble close to the reef edge off Ile Hermitage.

Remarks. This is one of the few large shells not recorded from other Mascarene Islands but it agrees well with the figures in Lamprell and Healy (1998).

Notes

Published as part of Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice & Wood, Harriet, 2004, Annotated checklist of the marine Bivalvia of Rodrigues, pp. 3229-3272 in Journal of Natural History 38 (23) on page 3238, DOI: 10.1080/00222930410001695097, http://zenodo.org/record/5251926

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Mytilidae
Genus
Modiolus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mytilida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Dunker
Species
hanleyi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Modiolus hanleyi (Dunker, 1882) sec. Oliver, Holmes, Killeen, Light & Wood, 2004

References

  • LAMPRELL, K. and HEALY, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia, Vol. 2 (Leiden: Backhuys Publishers), 288 pp.