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Tellina brevirostris Deshayes, 1855 
AphiaID: 575395

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Tellinidae (Family) > Tellina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tellina Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Merisca margarita Olsson, 1961
Tellina (Merisca) brevirostris Deshayes, 1855
Tellina brevicornuta Salisbury, 1934 (unnecessary nom. nov. for Tellina brevirostris Deshayes, 1855)
Sources  original description: Deshayes, M.G.P. 1855. Descriptions of new shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 22 (for 1854): 317-371.
page(s): 362 [details]


basis of record: Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to PerĂº, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.  [details]

redescription (from synonym): Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:575395
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2011-07-04 09:51:55Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2012-08-04 07:15:43Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Tellina brevirostris Deshayes, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575395 on 2013-06-19
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