''Tellina'' is a widely distributed
genus
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of
marine bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s, in the
family
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Tellinidae
The Tellinidae are a family of marine bivalve molluscs of the order Cardiida. Commonly known as tellins or tellens, they live fairly deep in soft sediments in shallow seas and respire using long siphons that reach up to the surface of the sedimen ...
.
It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
* ''
Tellina angrensis
''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
* '' Tellina angrensis'' (Marques ...
''
(Marques & Simone, 2014)
* ''
Tellina brasiliana
''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine (ocean), marine bivalve molluscs, in the family (biology), family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
...
''
Spengler, 1798
* ''
Tellina chrysogona''
Dall, 1908
* ''
Tellina iheringi''
Dall, 1908
* ''
Tellina nuculoides
''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
* '' Tellina angrensis'' (Marques ...
''
Reeve, 1854: salmon tellin
* ''
Tellina radiata''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
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* ''
Tellina rhodon
''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
* '' Tellina angrensis'' (Marques ...
''
Hanley, 1844
* ''
Tellina simplaria
''Tellina'' is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'':
* '' Tellina angrensis'' (Marques ...
''
A. E. Salisbury, 1934
References
*
Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, 1979. .
* Glen Pownall, ''New Zealand Shells and Shellfish'', Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979. .
* Eugene V. Coan & Paul Valentich-Scott. "Three new species of ''Tellina'' (Bivalvia, Tellinidae) from the Panamic Province." ''Zootaxa'' 2715 (2010): 55-58.
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Tellinidae
Bivalve genera