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: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytilida
Mytilidae
Modiolus
Modiolus auriculatus
Modiolus modiolus
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5253762
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5253762
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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