{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{For|the place|Modelia, Bogotá}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Modelia | image =Modelia granosa 001.jpg | image_caption =Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784); family Turbinidae | authority = Gray, 1850<ref>Gray (1850). ''Figs. Moll. Anim.'' '''4''': 87.</ref> | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = | type_species = | display_parents = 3 }}
'''''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.<ref>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</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Modelia'' include: * ''Modelia granosa'' <small>(Martyn, 1784)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Modelia guttata'' <small>A. Adams, 1863</small>: synonym of ''Bolma guttata'' <small>(A. Adams, 1863)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * 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 == * Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
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Category:Modelia Category:Turbinidae Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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