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Indomodulus tectum

Indomodulus tectum is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Modulidae.

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Indomodulus tectum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Modulidae
Genus: Indomodulus
Species:
I. tectum
Binomial name
Indomodulus tectum
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
  • Modulus candidus Petit de la Saussaye, 1853
  • Modulus cidaris Reeve, 1848
  • Modulus tectum (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Monodonta retusa Lamarck, 1816
  • Trochus tectum Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Indomodulus tectum is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Modulidae.12

References

References

  1. Bernard Landau; Geerat J. Vermeij; Sonja Reich (2014). "Classification of the Modulidae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea), with new genera and new fossil species from the Neogene of tropical America and Indonesia". Basteria. Journal of the Netherlands Malacological Society. 78 (1–3): 1–29.
  2. Indomodulus tectum (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 September 2016.
  • Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature. Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp.
  • Landau B., Vermeij G. K. & Reich S. (2014). Classification of the Modulidae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea), with new genera and new fossil species from the Neogene of tropical America and Indonesia. Basteria. 78(1-3): 1-29.
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