Species Tellinella tithonia (Gould, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tellina tithonia Gould, A.A. 1851. Shells from the United States Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 214-219; 252-258 [252].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 5905, Sulu Sea, Philippines.
• Tellina amoena 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] [369] (sp.234).
• Tellina exculta hawaiensis Pilsbry, H.A. 1918. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii, IV-VII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 69(1917): 309-333, pls 20-22 [332].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Hawaii.
• Tellinella crucigera auctt. non Lamarck, 1818.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tellinella tithonia (Gould, 1851).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Egypt, Red Sea, to Seychelles, India, Indonesia through to Philippines, Vietnam, China, Japan & Hawaii.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

2 - 65m; deeply burrowed in clean coral to coarse sand

 

General References

Huber, M., Langleit, A. &​ Kreipl, K. 2015. TELLINIDAE. In, Huber, M. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 907 pp, 1 CD-ROM. [Date published May: Markus Huber, Annioe Langleit &​ Kurt Kreipl: TELLINIDAE; Markus Huber: all other parts] [172, 4 text figs, 574-578; on CD]

 

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)
	BIVALVIA	23-Jun-2017	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)