Modelia is a genus of medium to large sea snails in which the shell has a pearly interior and the snail has a calcareous operculum; marine gastropod mollusks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[2]

Modelia
Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784); family Turbinidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Modelia
Gray, 1850[1]

Species

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Species within the genus Modelia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Modelia guttata A. Adams, 1863: synonym of Bolma guttata (A. Adams, 1863)

References

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  1. ^ Gray (1850). Figs. Moll. Anim. 4: 87.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. (2014). Modelia Gray, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413354 on 2014-09-02
  • Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592

Further reading

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