Tellina
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Tellina is a widely distributed genus
of marine
bivalve molluscs, in the family
Tellinidae
.
Genus
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of marine
Marine (ocean)
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bivalve molluscs, in the family
Family (biology)
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Tellinidae
Tellinidae
Tellinidae is a family of marine bivalve molluscs of the order Veneroida. They live under soft sediments in shallow seas.-Characteristics:Tellinids have rounded or oval, elongated shells, much flattened. The two valves are connected by a large external ligament. The two separate siphons are...
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Species
- Tellina aequistriata SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1824: striate tellin - Tellina agilis Stimpson, 1857: northern dwarf tellin, northern dwarf-tellin
- Tellina alerta Boss, 1964
- Tellina alternata SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822: alternate tellin - Tellina americana DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900: American tellin - Tellina amianta DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900 - Tellina angulosa GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
, 1791: angulate tellin - Tellina bodegensis Hinds, 1845: Bodega tellin
- Tellina brevirostris Deshayes, 1855
- Tellina candeana D'Orbigny, 1842: cande tellin, wedge tellin
- Tellina carpenteriTellina carpenteriThe Carpenter Tellin, Tellina carpenteri, Dall, 1900 is a bivalve mollusk in the family Tellinidae, the tellins. Synonyms include Tellina arenica Hertlein and Strong, 1949, Tellina variegata Carpenter, 1864, and Tellina carpenteri Dall....
DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900: Carpenter tellin - Tellina cerrosiana DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900 - Tellina charlottae E.A. SmithEdgar Albert SmithEdgar Albert Smith was a British zoologist, a malacologist.His father was the Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and Assistant Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury...
, 1885 - Tellina coani Keen, 1971
- Tellina colorata DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900: tinted tellin - Tellina consobrina D'Orbigny, 1842: consobrine tellin
- Tellina cristallina SpenglerLorenz SpenglerLorenz Spengler was a Swiss-born Danish turner and naturalist.He arrived at Copenhagen in 1743. He was a tutor to Christian VI of Denmark and later Frederick V of Denmark in the art of turning. From 1771 he was head of the Royal Art Chamber , a position he held until his death in...
, 1798: crystal tellin - Tellina cumingii HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1844 - Tellina diantha Boss, 1964
- Tellina donacina
- Tellina edgari IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
, 1915 - Tellina elucens Mighels, 1845
- Tellina eugonia SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1913 - Tellina euvitrea Boss, 1964: shiny tellin
- Tellina exerythra Boss, 1964: bloodless tellin
- Tellina fabulaTellina fabulaTellina fabula is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Tellinidae. It is found off the coasts of north west Europe where it lives buried in sandy sediments....
GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
, 1791 - Tellina fausta Pulteney, 1799: favored tellin
- Tellina flucigera DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1908 - Tellina gaimardiTellina gaimardiTellina gaimardi, or the angled wedge shell, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Tellinidae.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
, 1915: angled wedge shell - Tellina gibber von IheringHermann von IheringHermann von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was born at Kiel, Germany, and died at Gießen, Germany. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.-Biography:...
, 1907 - Tellina gouldii HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1846: cuneate tellin - Tellina guildingii HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1844: guilding tellin - Tellina huttoni E.A. SmithEdgar Albert SmithEdgar Albert Smith was a British zoologist, a malacologist.His father was the Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and Assistant Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury...
, 1885 - Tellina idae DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1891: Ida tellin - Tellina inaequistriata Donovan, 1802
- Tellina iris SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822: rainbow tellin - Tellina juttingae Altena, 1965: jutting tellin
- Tellina laevigata Linnaeus, 1758: smooth tellin
- Tellina lamellata CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1855 - Tellina lineata TurtonWilliam TurtonWilliam Turton was a British naturalist.Turton was born at Olveston, Gloucestershire and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He commenced in practice at Swansea, but devoted his leisure time to natural history, especially conchology...
, 1819: rose-petal tellin - Tellina listeriTellina listeriThe speckled tellin, Tellina listeri, is a bivalve mollusk in the family Tellinidae, the tellins....
RödingPeter Friedrich RödingPeter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.Many of Röding's descriptions are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister...
, 1798: speckled tellin - Tellina magna SpenglerLorenz SpenglerLorenz Spengler was a Swiss-born Danish turner and naturalist.He arrived at Copenhagen in 1743. He was a tutor to Christian VI of Denmark and later Frederick V of Denmark in the art of turning. From 1771 he was head of the Royal Art Chamber , a position he held until his death in...
, 1798: great tellin - Tellina martinicensis D'Orbigny, 1842: Martinique tellin
- Tellina mera SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1834: pure tellin - Tellina meropsis DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900: oval tellin - Tellina modesta (CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864): plain tellin - Tellina nicoyana Hertlein & Strong, 1949
- Tellina nitens C. B. Adams, 1845: shiny dwarf tellin, shiny dwarf-tellin
- Tellina nuculoides (ReeveLovell Augustus ReeveLovell Augustus Reeve was an English conchologist.Lovell Augustus Reeve was initially apprenticed to a grocer of Ludgate Hill between 1827 and '34...
, 1854): salmon tellin - Tellina oahuana
- Tellina ochracea CarpenterPhillip Pearsall CarpenterPhilip Pearsall Carpenter Rev. Dr. , who in 1841, was ordained Presbyterian minister in England, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1860, and whose field work as a malacologist or conchologist in North America is still well regarded today...
, 1864 - Tellina oligoscissulata Jung, 1969
- Tellina pacifica Dall, 1900
- Tellina paramera Boss, 1964: perfect tellin
- Tellina persica Dall and Simpson, 1901: apricot tellin
- Tellina pristiphora Dall, 1900
- Tellina probina Boss, 1964: slandered tellin
- Tellina proclivis HertleinLeo George HertleinLeo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
and Strong, 1949 - Tellina prora HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1844 - Tellina punicea Born, 1778: watermelon tellin
- Tellina pygmaea
- Tellina radiata Linnaeus, 1758: sunrise tellin
- Tellina reclusa DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900 - Tellina recurvata HertleinLeo George HertleinLeo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
and Strong, 1949 - Tellina rickettsi Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2010
- Tellina rubescens HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1844 - Tellina sadeghianae Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2010
- Tellina sandix Boss, 1968
- Tellina scobinata Linnaeus, 1758
- Tellina serrata Brocchi, 1814
- Tellina similis J. Sowerby, 1806: candystick tellin
- Tellina simulans C. B. Adams, 1852
- Tellina spenceriTellina spenceriTellina spenceri, or Spencer's wedge shell, is a rare bivalve mollusc of the family Tellinidae, endemic to New Zealand.-References:...
SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1907: Spencer's wedge shell - Tellina squamifera DeshayesGérard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
, 1855: crenulate tellin - Tellina steinbecki Coan & Valentich-Scott, 2010
- Tellina suberis Dall, 1900
- Tellina sybaritica DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1881 - Tellina tabogensis Salisbury, 1934
- Tellina tampaensis ConradTimothy Abbott ConradTimothy Abbott Conrad was an American geologist, malacologist and carcinologist.- External links :* at Internet Archive...
, 1866: Tampa tellin - Tellina tenella A. E. Verrill, 1874: delicate tellin
- Tellina tenuisTellina tenuisTellina tenuis, the thin tellin, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Tellinidae. It is found off the coasts of north west Europe and in the Mediterranean Sea where it lives buried in sandy sediments....
- Tellina texana DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1900: say tellin, Texas tellin - Tellina variegata
- Tellina versicolor DeKay, 1843: many-colored tellin
- Tellina vespuciana (d'Orbigny, 1842): Vespucci tellin
- Tellina virgo HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
, 1844