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Tellina meropsis Dall, 1900 
AphiaID: 575418

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		  Angulus gouldii Carpenter, 1864 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Tellina gouldii Hanley, 1846)
 Angulus meropsis (Dall, 1900)
 Tellina (Moerella) meropsis Dall, 1900
 Tellina paziana Dall, 1900
Sources  basis of record: Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.  [details]

additional source: Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 44 [details]

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
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Tellina meropsis
Tellina meropsis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:575418
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2011-07-04 09:51:55Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2011-10-23 02:34:02Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-01-14 15:06:10Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-08-05 18:53:48Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Tellina meropsis Dall, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575418 on 2013-05-25
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