Modiolarca

Modiolarca, is a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the Family Mytilidae, the mussels.

Modiolarca
Modiolarca impacta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Mytilida
Family: Mytilidae
Genus: Modiolarca
Gray, 1842
Species

See text

Species within the genus Modiolarca

  • Modiolarca bicolor
  • Modiolarca cummingiana
  • Modiolarca excavata
  • Modiolarca gemma
  • Modiolarca impacta (Hermann, 1782)
  • Modiolarca minuta
  • Modiolarca prisca
  • Modiolarca pusilla
  • Modiolarca subpicta
  • Modiolarca subtorta
  • Modiolarca trapezina
  • Modiolarca tumida
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gollark: The answer is 3, of course.
gollark: Other body parts have protein in them too though.
gollark: They seem to mostly affect the brain for whatever reason.
gollark: This was a big issue in the UK some time back, apparently, as some very smart farmers wanted to save money by feeding cows dead cows.

References

  • DiscoverLife
  • GBIF
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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