Modulus modulus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Modulus filosus (Helbling • Modulus Gray • Modulus perlatus Gmelin • Modulus pisum Mørch • Modulus tasmanica Tension-Woods

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Modulus

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M. modulus (Buttonsnail)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the geologic history of the Floridian plateau, by Thomas Wayland Vaughan. Washington, D.C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910 url p. 177.
• American seashells. With illus. by Frederick M. Bayer. New York, Van Nostrand[1954] url p. 151, p. 86.
• An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names. [Brooklyn?]1954. url .
• Annual report - Western Society of Malacologists. Pomona, Calif., Western Society of Malacologists. url p. 10, p. 17, p. 3, p. 40, p. 43.
• Breviora. 1971 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 15, p. 3, p. 4, p. 6, p. 7, p. 8, figure 1, page 9.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 564.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 33.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 2001 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url fig. 5 , fig. 12 , fig. 9 , p. 128, p. 13, figure 4, page 14, p. 209, p. 211, p. 215, p. 220, p. 228, p. 232, p. 259, p. 5, figure 54, page 56, p. 565, figure 55, page 57, p. 77, p. 79, p. 95.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 177.
• Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Calooshatchie River. Philadelphia, 1890-1903 url p. 1585, p. 1609.
• Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies. / Prepared under the direction of Thomas Wayland Vaughan. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1919. url p. 564.
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 104, p. 224.
• East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 104, p. 224.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 167, p. 191, p. 193, p. 295.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 304.
• Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta, Printed by order of the trustees, 1878-1884. url p. 175.
• Hand list of mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta: [s.n.], 1878-1884 [i.e., 1885] url p. 175.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 89.
• List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque, including the Bermudas / by William Healey Dall. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. url p. 173.
• Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species / by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1879-1898. url p. 261, p. 261, p. 261.
• Marine shells of the western coast of Flordia / by Louise M. Perry and Jeanne S. Schwengel. Illus. by W. Hammersley Southwick, Axel A. Olsson, and Frank White. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, 1955. url p. 139, p. 252, p. 315.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 112.
• Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908-42. url p. 177.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 495, p. 495, p. 608, p. 608.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 620.
• Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences. Davenport, Ia., Academy of Natural Sciences [etc.] url p. 59, p. 59.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 19 1897 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 319, p. 452, p. 453, p. 456, p. 460.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 237.
• Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, : The Academy, 1919-60. url p. 140.
• Shells and sea life. Phoenix, AZ: Miranda Enterprises, url p. 202, p. 6.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 98 1940 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 18.
• Smithsonian year: annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ended Sept. 30. .. 1978 City of Washington: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1980-2001. url p. 33, p. 410, p. 76.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 6.
• Texas conchologist. [Houston, Houston Conchology Society], 1964- url , , p. 102, p. 121, p. 15, p. 18, p. 23, p. 34, p. 44, p. 6, p. 60, p. 61, p. 63, p. 7, p. 78, p. 8, p. 8, p. 81, p. 86.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 111, p. 123.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url , , , , p. 114, p. 115, p. 117, p. 120, p. 120, p. 120, p. 121, p. 121, p. 122, p. 124, p. 134, p. 135, p. 136, p. 36, p. 42, p. 49, p. 49, p. 57, p. 61, p. 71, p. 71, p. 86, p. 99.
• The archaeological use and distribution of Mollusca in the Maya lowlands New Orleans, 1969. url p. 104, p. 114, p. 37, p. 8.
• Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1866- url p. 181, p. 181, p. 182, p. 182.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 15 1969 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 230, p. 234.
• Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia, 1887-1927. url p. 1585, p. 1609, p. 295.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 07, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database [Darwin Core]
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Benthic biodiversity along the central coast in the Brazilian EEZ
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NBI
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, SINBIOTA - marine data
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2684191
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-71909
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13750006
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 71909
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 507088

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