Modiolus auriculatus

Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848) Habitat. Attached by a byssus, mostly in sand and rubble mixtures but also in crevices and holes. Forms rafts on sand-covered rocks on the exposed north and east coasts. Frequently heavily encrusted by macroalgae. Distribution. Throughout the lagoon from low in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice, Wood, Harriet
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2004
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae
Modiolus
Modiolus auriculatus
Modiolus modiolus
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5253761
https://zenodo.org/record/5253761
Description
Summary:Modiolus auriculatus (Krauss, 1848) Habitat. Attached by a byssus, mostly in sand and rubble mixtures but also in crevices and holes. Forms rafts on sand-covered rocks on the exposed north and east coasts. Frequently heavily encrusted by macroalgae. Distribution. Throughout the lagoon from low in the intertidal to a few metres around the reef edge. Large densities occur along the more exposed eastern areas, notably at Pointe Coton. : Published as part of Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice & Wood, Harriet, 2004, Annotated checklist of the marine Bivalvia of Rodrigues, pp. 3229-3272 in Journal of Natural History 38 (23) on page 3238, DOI: 10.1080/00222930410001695097, http://zenodo.org/record/5251926

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