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Tellina Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 138533

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Heterodonta > Euheterodonta > Veneroida > Tellinoidea > Tellinidae
Status accepted
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Rank Genus
Parent Tellinidae Blainville, 1814
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

additional source: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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Subgenus Tellina (Moerella) P. Fischer, 1887 represented as Moerella P. Fischer, 1887 (alternate representation)
  » Species Tellina (Moerella) pygmaea Lovén, 1846 accepted as Angulus pygmaeus (Lovén, 1846)

Species Tellina fabula Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Angulus fabula (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Tellina pygmaea Lovén, 1846 accepted as Angulus pygmaeus (Lovén, 1846)
Species Tellina tenuis da Costa, 1778 accepted as Angulus tenuis (da Costa, 1778)
Environment marine
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
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Note  Classification: Angulus, Fabulina and Moerella are treated as separate genera [details]
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Tellina
Tellina
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Tellina
Tellina
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Tellina radiata
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Tellina radiata
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138533
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2013-03-31 09:47:20Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Tellina Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138533 on 2013-05-23