| Description | Modulus modulus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Modulidae.
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus modulus |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Eotomariidae : Liospira : Modulus modulus |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Modulus |
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| Scientific Name | Modulus modulus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Trochus | stated without evidence | de Sowerby and Murchison, 1839 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Pleurotomaria | stated without evidence | d'Orbigny, 1850 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Raphistoma | stated without evidence | Morris, 1854 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Trochus | stated without evidence | Murchison, 1854 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Raphistoma | stated without evidence | Bigsby, 1868 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Pleurotomaria | stated without evidence | de la Touche, 1884 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Raphistoma | stated without evidence | Etheridge, 1888 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Liospira | stated without evidence | Longstaff, 1924 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Scalites | stated with evidence | Rohr et al., 2004 | | Liospira lenticularis | species | belongs to Liospira | stated with evidence | Wagner, 2017 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 439 - 433 Ma
Silurian |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 439 - 433 Ma
Silurian |
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| Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniina) |
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| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) |
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| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniina) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. C. de Sowerby and R. I. Murchison. 1839. The Silurian System. Part 2. Organic Remains. The Silurian System 2:579-768 |
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| Common Name(s) | Atlantic Modulus, Atlantische Maß-schnecke, Buttonsnail |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulus_modulus |
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| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Trochus lenticularis Lamarck, 1822 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Trochus lenticularis |
| Modulus canaliculatus Mörch, 1876 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus canaliculatus |
| Modulus tasmanica Tension-woods, 1877 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus tasmanica |
| Trochus perlatus Gmelin, 1791 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Trochus perlatus |
| Liospira marklandensis McLearn, 1924 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Liospira marklandensis |
| Modulus floridanus Conrad, 1869 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus floridanus |
| Modulus convexior Mörch, 1876 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus convexior |
| Modulus krebsii Mörch, 1876 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus krebsii |
| Trochus modulus Linnaeus, 1758 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Trochus modulus |
| Modulus filosus (Helbling, 1779) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus filosus |
| Modulus pisum Mörch, 1876 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus pisum |
| Ethalia tasmanica Tenison Woods, 1877 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Ethalia tasmanica |
| Trochus unidens d'Orbigny, 1842 | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Trochus unidens |
| Modulus perlatus (Gmelin, 1791) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus perlatus |
| Pleurotomaria lenticularis (de Sowerby & Murchison, 1839) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Pleurotomaria lenticularis |
| Raphistoma lenticularis (de Sowerby & Murchison, 1839) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Raphistoma lenticularis |
| Modulus lenticularis (Lamarck, 1822) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Modulus lenticularis |
| Scalites lenticularis (de Sowerby & Murchison, 1839) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Scalites lenticularis |
| Liospira lenticularis (de Sowerby & Murchison, 1839) | GBIF | species | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Modulidae : Modulus : Liospira lenticularis |
| de Sowerby J. C., Murchison R. I. The Silurian System. Part 2. Organic Remains, The Silurian System 2, 579-768 |
| d'Orbigny A. , Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 1, 1-392 |
| M'Coy F. On some new Silurian Mollusca, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 77, 45-63 |
| Whitfield R. P. On the fauna of the Lower Carboniferous limestones of Spergen Hill, Indiana, with a revision of the descriptions of its Fossils hitherto published, and illustrations of the species from the original type series, American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 1, 39-97 |
| Longstaff J. D. (1924) Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80 4, 408-446 |
| McLearn F. H. (1924) Palaeontology of the Silurian rocks of Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 137, 1-124 |
| Northrop S. A. (1939) Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé, Geological Society of America Special Paper 21, 1-302 |
| Pitcher B.L. (1939) The Upper Valentian gastropod fauna of Shropshire, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 4, 82-132 |
| Peel J. S. (1977) Systematics and palaeontology of the Silurian gastropods of the Arisaig Group, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter 21 1, 1-89 |
| Rohr D. M., Measures E.A., et al (2004) Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods from the Table Point formation, western Newfoundland, Current Research (2004) Newfoundland Department of Mines and Energy Geological Survey 2004 1, 225-234 |
| Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database |
| Cole, T. C. H. (2017) Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English: 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp - via Catalogue of Life |
| Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al., 1988: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16. vii + 277. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. - via World Register of Marine Species |
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