Species Tellinimactra edentula (Spengler, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tellina edentula Spengler, L. 1797. Udförlig beskrivelse over det mangeskallede Konkylie-slaegt, af Linneus kaldet Chiton; med endeel nye arter og varieteter. Skrifter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet. Kjøbenhavn 4: 62-103 [96] [replacement name; for Tellina angulata Gmelin, 1791].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMUC BIV-1098, Tharangambadi (formerly Tranquebar), India.

  Type locality 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] [718].
• Tellina angulata Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3229, no. 4] [junior homonym; not Tellina edentula Spengler, 1798. not Linnaeus, 1767].
• Scrobicularia inflata Schumacher, 1817.

  Secondary source:

   Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [104, pl. 50, fig. 375].
• Lutraria tellinoides 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. [470].
• Tellina lamyi Dautzenberg, P. 1906. Contribution a la Fauna Malacologique de l'Indo-Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie 54(3): 145-226, pls 5-7 [224].
• Tellina angulosa Roding, 1798 [non Gmelin, 1791].

 

Generic Combinations

• Scrobicularia angulata (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Sturany, R.W. 1905. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna des Rothen Meeres und des Golfen von Aden. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozooligischen Gesellschaft 37: 132-146 [138] (new combination)
• Psammotreta (Tellinimactra) edentula (Spengler, 1798). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [104, pl. 50, fig. 375]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

15m; in mud and silty sand; also river estuaries

 

General References

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. [95] (as Psammotreta tellinoides (Lamarck, 1818))

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] [277-278, 710-712, 5 text figs; on CD]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [157]

Rosenberg, G. 2012. Psammotreta edentula (Spengler, 1798). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605745 (Accessed on 2015-03-24)

Satyamurti, S.T. 1956. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. II. Scaphopoda, Pelecypoda, and Cephalopoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 7): 202 pp., 30 pls [155, pl. 23, figs 2a-b] (as Tellina angulata Gemlin)

 

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	28-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	31-Jul-2014	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
11-Aug-2014	TELLINOIDEA	27-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM)
		22-Jun-2011	MODIFIED