''Tellina'' is a widely distributed

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of marine

bivalve Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...

molluscs, in the family (biology), family Tellinidae. It is also known as "tellin" in English.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus ''Tellina'': * ''Tellina angrensis'' (Marques & Simone, 2014) * ''Tellina brasiliana'' Spengler, 1798 * ''Tellina chrysogona'' Dall, 1908 * ''Tellina iheringi'' Dall, 1908 * ''Tellina nuculoides'' Lovell Augustus Reeve, Reeve, 1854: salmon tellin * ''Tellina radiata'' Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758: sunrise tellin * ''Tellina rhodon'' Hanley, 1844 * ''Tellina simplaria'' A. E. Salisbury, 1934

References

* Arthur William Baden Powell, Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'', HarperCollins, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, 1979. . * Glen Pownall, ''New Zealand Shells and Shellfish'', Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, 1979. . * Eugene V. Coan & Paul Valentich-Scott. "Three new species of ''Tellina'' (Bivalvia, Tellinidae) from the Panamic Province." ''Zootaxa'' 2715 (2010): 55-58. {{Taxonbar, from=Q1407869 Tellinidae Bivalve genera