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Modulidae
Sign in to saveModulidae, common name modulids, is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.
Species
modulus snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyModulidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 119
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Modulidae
- Collections
- CAS, UF, WAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, TMAG, QM
- Recorded in
- Marshall Islands, Panama, Australia, Papua New Guinea, United States, Philippines, Mexico, India
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Neotaenioglossa
- Image
- Indomodulus tectum 01.JPG
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- Commons category
- Modulidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Modulidae
- taxon name
- Modulidae
- taxon rank
- family
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Encyclopedic overview
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Modulidae, common name modulids, is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cerithioidea.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Modulidae has no subfamilies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Modulidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.