MACROBEL
Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf
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Macrobel taxon details

Tellinidae Blainville, 1814 
AphiaID: 235

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Heterodonta > Euheterodonta > Veneroida > Tellinoidea
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Family
Parent Tellinoidea
Source Not documented
Direct child
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 Genus Angulus Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Genus Macoma Leach, 1819
Genus Moerella P. Fischer, 1887
Genus Tellina Linnaeus, 1758
Environment marine
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS
Note  Classification: The separation into genera of the family Tellinidae is a point of discussion. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:235
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2011-03-19 11:16:20Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Tellinidae. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=235 on 2013-05-26