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Tellimya tenella (Lovén, 1846)

152397  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152397)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Galeommatida (Order)
  10. Galeommatoidea (Superfamily)
  11. Lasaeidae (Family)
  12. Montacutinae (Subfamily)
  13. Tellimya (Genus)
  14. Tellimya tenella (Species)
accepted
Species
Decipula ovata Friele, 1876 · unaccepted (synonym)
Montacuta tenella Lovén, 1846 · unaccepted (currently placed in genus...)  
currently placed in genus Tellimya
Tellimya ovalis G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Montacuta tenella Lovén, 1846) Lovén, S. L. (1846). Index Molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Förhandlingar. (1846): 134-160, 182-204. [Offprint: pp. 1-50]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39077288 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tellimya tenella (Lovén, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152397 on 2025-04-06
Date
action
by
2005-04-11 09:30:41Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-10-08 20:02:46Z
changed
Gofas, Serge

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Nomenclature

original description (of Montacuta tenella Lovén, 1846) Lovén, S. L. (1846). Index Molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Förhandlingar. (1846): 134-160, 182-204. [Offprint: pp. 1-50]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39077288 [details] 

original description (of Decipula ovata Friele, 1876) Friele H. 1876. Bidrag til Vestlandets Molluskfauna. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-selskabet i Christiania, 1875: 57-64,, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43854814
page(s): 57 [details] 

original description (of Tellimya ovalis G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 341; pl. 34 fig. 1 [details] 

basis of record Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Ockelmann, K. W. (1965). Redescription, distribution, biology, and dimorphous sperm of Montacuta tenella Lovén (Mollusca, Leptonacea). Ophelia. 2(1): 211-221., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785326.1965.10409600 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
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 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Montacuta tenella Lovén, 1846)
To Dyntaxa 
To Malacopics (Tellimya tenella (Lovén, 1846)) 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales 
To PESI (from synonym Montacuta tenella Lovén, 1846)
To PESI (from synonym Decipula tenella (Lovén, 1846))
To PESI (from synonym Decipula ovata Friele, 1876)
To PESI (from synonym Tellimya ovalis G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI 
Unreviewed
To Malacopics (Tellimya tenella (Lovén, 1846))
To Malacopics (Tellimya tenella (Lovén, 1846))
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