Species Tellinella crucigera (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tellina crucigera Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [522].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Tellina divergens Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [5] (sp.159).
• Tellina exculta Gould, A.A. 1851. Shells from the United States Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 214-219; 252-258 [253].
• Tellina flammula Deshayes, G.P. 1855 [imprint 1854]. Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Vol. 22 for 1854: 317-371 [Date published May 1855] [367-368].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tellinella crucigera (Lamarck, 1818). —
  Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [89]
• Tellinella exculta (Gould, 1851).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Tellina (Tellinella) crucigera Lamarck, 1818. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [88, pl. 42, fig. 292]
• Tellina (Tellinella) exculta Gould, 1851. —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [88, pl. 42, fig. 293]
• Tellina (Tellinella) exculta auct. —
  Macandrew, R. 1870. Report on the testaceous Mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months of February and March 1869. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 6: 429-450 [446]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific. In Australia- from Swain Reef to north Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 25 m

 

General References

Gofas, S. & Rosenberg, G. 2014. Tellina crucigera (Lamarck, 1818). World Register of Marine Species. http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207694 (Accessed on 2015-03-26. Alternate representation of Tellina crucigera (Lamarck, 1818))

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [564, fig. 183A-B]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [148]

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [376] (as Tellina tithonia Gould, 1856)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	30-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		23-Jun-2011	MODIFIED