Modiolus hanleyi (Dunker, 1882)

Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice & Wood, Harriet, 2004, Annotated checklist of the marine Bivalvia of Rodrigues, Journal of Natural History 38 (23), pp. 3229-3272 : 3238

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930410001695097

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5253764

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC8797-6F7D-FFCB-FE32-FC41FB8F4F82

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scientific name

Modiolus hanleyi (Dunker, 1882)
status

 

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Mytilida

Family

Mytilidae

Genus

Modiolus

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