Bivalvia | Mytilida | Mytiloidea | Mytilidae
1 Recent freshwater species (8 total species)
Lamy, 1919. Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Natur. 25: 173.
(intro'd as sub-gen. of Modiola Lamarck, 1801)
Type species: Modiola arcuatula Hanley, 1844 (tautonomy) = Arcuatula arcuatula
Soot-Ryen, 1958. Ann. Natal Mus. 14(2): 342.
Type species: Modiola capensis Krauss, 1848 = Arcuatula capensis
The Taxonomic History lists the ways authors have classified the species currently assigned to Arcuatula, since 1900.
Brachidontes — Brandt (1974), Bogan (2010), Graf (2013)
Arcuatula — Huber (2010)