Modulus tectum

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,853 meters (0 to -19,203 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Modulus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. modulus (Buttonsnail)

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Further Reading

• A manual of the Mollusca, or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells / by S.P. Woodward; illustrated by A.N. Waterhouse and Joseph Wilson Lowry. London: John Weale, 1851. url p. 135.
• American journal of conchology. Philadelphia, G.W. Tryon, jr., 1865-72. url p. 128, p. 302.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 43 1904 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 439, p. 439.
• Catalogue of the Doane collection of shells, presented by Mrs. Rose Delano to the Marion natural history society. s.n., The Wareham press, 19--? url p. 41.
• Catalogue of the Hadfield collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, ManchesterJ.E. Cornish1897 url p. 117.
• Geological magazine. London [etc.]Cambridge University Press. url p. 507.
• Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British museum. London, Printed by order of the trustees, 1857. url .
• Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta, Printed by order of the trustees, 1878-1884. url p. 176.
• Hand list of mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta / by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta: [s.n.], 1878-1884 [i.e., 1885] url p. 176.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 89.
• Journal of conchology. London: D. Bogue. url p. 117, p. 196.
• 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. 232, p. 289, p. 289, p. 290, p. 290, p. 290, p. 303, p. 307, p. 307.
• Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society. Manchester: The Society, 1888-1980. url p. 5.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 424, p. 522.
• Natural history of Hawaii, being an account of the Hawaiian people, the geology and geography of the islands, and the native and introduced plants and animals of the group, Honolulu, Hawaii[Printed for the author by] the Hawaiian gazette co., ltd., 1915. url p. 465, p. 471, p. 519.
• "Pola" expedition: Mollusks. [5 works on mollusks resulting from investigations on voyages of the S.M. Schiff "Pola", 1890-1898] Wien, K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1896-1903. url p. 55.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 292, p. 292.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 72.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 33.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 203.
• Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 358.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 237.
• Some account of the fauna and flora of Sinai, Petra, and Wa?dy 'Arabah, London, Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine exploration fund by A. P. Watt, 1891. url , .
• Structural and systematic conchology: an introduction to the study of the Mollusca... By George W. Tryon, jr.... Philadelphia: The author, 1882-84. url p. 242, p. 242, p. 414, p. 414.
• Texas conchologist. Houston, Houston Conchology Society url p. 50, p. 50, p. 67.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 384, p. 498, p. 498.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 40.
• The Mollusca and the Brachiopoda. Cambridge, Harvard College, Museum of Comparative Zoology]1908. url p. 439.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 111.
• The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagoes: being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900 / Ed. by J. Stanley Gardiner. Cambridge: University Press, 1903-06. url p. 595, p. 614.
• The genera of recent Mollusca: arranged according to their organization. By Henry Adams...and Arthur Adams. LondonJ. Van Voorst, 1858. url p. 33.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. London: [The Society], 1879- url p. 69.

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 November 23, 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, Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1920196
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14922594
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 629695

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,088.130 meters (-3,569.980 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,558.150 based on 125 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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