MolluscaBase - Modiola ovalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1859

WoRMS name details

Modiola ovalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1859

AphiaID

541118 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:541118)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted Name

Gibbomodiola adriatica (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Modiolus adriaticus Lamarck, 1819

Rank

Species

Parent

Modiola [sic] accepted as Modiolus Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Modiola ovalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1859

Environment

marine

Original description

Sowerby, G. B. II. (1859). Illustrated Index of British Shells. Containing Figures of all the Recent Species, with Names and Other Information. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, xii pp., 24 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48938
page(s): pl. 7 fig. 7 [details]

Descriptive notes

Nomenclature name introduced conditionnally

Nomenclature name introduced conditionnally [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Modiola ovalis G. B. Sowerby II, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=541118 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-10 15:53:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-10 16:07:33Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2019-05-13 13:42:37Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Sowerby, G. B. II. (1859). Illustrated Index of British Shells. Containing Figures of all the Recent Species, with Names and Other Information. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London, xii pp., 24 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48938
page(s): pl. 7 fig. 7 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Jeffreys J.G. (1865). British conchology, or an account of the Mollusca which now inhabit the British Isles and the surrounding seas, vol. 3. Marine shells, comprising the remaining Conchifera, the Solenoconchia, and Gastropoda as far as Littorina. Van Voorst, London. 394 pp., pls 1-8. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16353591
page(s): 117 [details]

Other

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

From editor or global species database

Nomenclature name introduced conditionnally [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To PESI