Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)

Traits taxon details

Moerella P. Fischer, 1887

AphiaID

147020 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147020)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by typification of replaced name)

Parent

Moerellinae M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015

Original name

Tellina (Moerella) P. Fischer, 1887

Synonymised names

Atlantella M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015 · unaccepted

Psammotaea Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted (senior synonym not in current use;...)

senior synonym not in current use; supposed to be a synonym of Gari by most earlier workers, but see Willan, 1993: 60

Tellina (Moerella) P. Fischer, 1887 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Direct children (34)

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Species Moerella analogica (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)
Species Moerella bertrandi (Cosel, 1995)
Species Moerella boucheti (Cosel, 1995)
Species Moerella canonica (A. E. Salisbury, 1934)
Species Moerella citrina (Monterosato, 1884)
Species Moerella ciucianensis (Brunetti & Della Bella, 2010) †
Species Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791)
Species Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Moerella etrusca Brunetti & Della Bella, 2023 †
Species Moerella extransversa Brunetti & Della Bella, 2023
Species Moerella guildingii (Hanley, 1844)
Species Moerella hilaris (Hanley, 1844)
Species Moerella hispanica Brunetti & Della Bella, 2023 †
Species Moerella huttoni (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Moerella kengii (Brunetti & Della Bella, 2008) †
Species Moerella kurodai (Makiyama, 1927) †
Species Moerella leloeuffi Cosel & Gofas, 2018
Species Moerella modica (Cosel, 1995)
Species Moerella nanggulanensis (K. Martin, 1915) †
Species Moerella nannodes (K. Martin, 1885) †
Species Moerella nishimurai Kuroda & Habe, 1958
Species Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Moerella quasimacoma Hickman, 2015 †
Species Moerella rubicincta (Tryon, 1869)
Species Moerella securiclata P. A. Maxwell, 1992 †
Species Moerella talahabensis (K. Martin, 1922) †
Species Moerella tulipa (Hanley, 1844)
Species Moerella vidalensis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1904)
Species Moerella virgulata (Hanley, 1845)
Species Moerella iridescens (W. H. Benson, 1842) accepted as Iridona iridescens (W. H. Benson, 1842)
Species Moerella jedoensis (Lischke, 1872) accepted as Moerella hilaris (Hanley, 1844)
Species Moerella pygmaea (Lovén, 1846) accepted as Asbjornsenia pygmaea (Lovén, 1846)
Species Moerella rutila (Dunker, 1860) accepted as Jitlada culter (Hanley, 1844)
Species Moerella petropolitana Stenzel & E. K. Krause, 1957 † (uncertain > unassessed)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Tellina (Moerella) P. Fischer, 1887) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 1147 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerella P. Fischer, 1887. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2021) Marine Species Traits at: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147020 on 2025-05-30

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Moerella P. Fischer, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147020 on 2025-05-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-03-01 09:59:49Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2012-01-08 19:50:18Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-02-28 21:03:24Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-06-04 23:00:48Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2012-08-05 18:53:48Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-01-08 10:43:56Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2014-01-20 21:04:36Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2014-01-21 13:53:59Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2016-01-22 07:35:55Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-02-07 19:41:47Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2018-07-14 05:03:34Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Tellina (Moerella) P. Fischer, 1887) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 1147 [details]

original description (of Psammotaea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 516 [details]

original description (of Atlantella M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015) Huber, M.; Langleit, A.; Kreipl, K. (2015). Tellinidae. Pp. 167-297 In: M. Huber, Compendium of bivalves 2. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 907 pp.
page(s): 608 [details]

basis of record Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 310 [details]

additional source 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. [details]

status source Raines B. & Huber M. (2012) Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Sala y Gomez bivalves. Zootaxa 3217: 1-106. [29 Feb. 2012], available online at http://www.zora.uzh.ch/61152/1/12_Zootaxa.pdf
page(s): 76 [details]