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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: | Modiolus Lamarck, 1799 |
| Type species | |
| Modiolus modiolus[1] | |
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Modiolus, the horsemussels, are a genus of medium-sized marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae.
- ^ a b Philippe Bouchet; Serge Gofas (2012). "Modiolus Lamarck, 1799". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 March 2017.