Tellina

Genus of bivalves

Tellina

Tellina nuculoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Cardiida
Superfamily:  | Tellinoidea
Family:  | Tellinidae
Genus:  | Tellina
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]

List

* Liotellina P. Fischer, 1887
* Musculus Mörch, 1853
* †Tellina (Gastranopsis) Cossmann, 1906
* Tellina (Liotellina) P. Fischer, 1887
* †Tellina (Macaliopsis) Cossmann, 1886
* Tellina (Tellina) Linnaeus, 1758
* Tellina (Tellinarius) Froriep, 1806
* Tellinarius Froriep, 1806

Tellina is a widely distributed genus of marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Tellinidae.[1] It is also known as "tellin" in English.[2][3]

## Species

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The following species are recognised in the genus Tellina:[1]

* Tellina angrensis (Marques & Simone, 2014)
* Tellina brasiliana Spengler, 1798
* Tellina chrysogona Dall, 1908
* Tellina iheringi Dall, 1908
* Tellina nuculoides Reeve, 1854: salmon tellin
* Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758: sunrise tellin
* Tellina rhodon Hanley, 1844
* Tellina simplaria A. E. Salisbury, 1934

## References

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1. ^ a b c "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tellina Linnaeus, 1758". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
2. ^ "tellin". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
3. ^ "Definition of 'tellin'". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved October 14, 2024.

* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, 1979. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
* Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979. ISBN 978-0-85467-054-3.
* Eugene V. Coan & Paul Valentich-Scott. "Three new species of Tellina (Bivalvia, Tellinidae) from the Panamic Province." Zootaxa 2715 (2010): 55-58.

Taxon identifiers

Tellina|

* Wikidata: Q1407869
* Wikispecies: Tellina
* ADW: Tellina
* AFD: Tellina
* BOLD: 84990
* CoL: 7PJ5H
* GBIF: 2286814
* iNaturalist: 171805
* IRMNG: 1359700
* ITIS: 81074
* NBN: NHMSYS0020827608
* NCBI: 59234
* Open Tree of Life: 1023550
* Paleobiology Database: 18314
* Plazi: D9BB864D-367C-D70C-FDA2-8111FD3E8318
* WoRMS: 138533
* ZooBank: E8CFF119-19CB-4FDB-9334-71C3B097DB5E