Tellinidae

Tellinidae

Taxobox
name = Tellinidae


image_caption = "Tellina fabula"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Bivalvia
subclassis = Heterodonta
ordo = Veneroida
subordo = Sphaeriacea
superfamilia = Tellinoidea
familia = Tellinidae
familia_authority = Blainville, 1814
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Tellinidae is a family of bivalve molluscs of the order Veneroida.

The shells are ovate or elongated, more or less flexed or rostrate at the posterior end, and with an external ligament. There are two cardinal teeth in each valve, tending to be , and lateral teeth are present in at least one valve.

Distribution is cosmopolitan.

Genera

* "Arcopagia" Leach in Brown, 1827
* "Cymatoica" Dall, 1889
* "Leporimetis" Iredale, 1930
* "Macoma" Leach, 1819
* "Macomona" Finlay, 1927
* "Psammotreta" Dall, 1900
* "Quidnipagus" (Iredale, 1929)
* "Strigilla" Turton, 1822
* "Tellidora" Morch, 1856
* "Tellina" Linnaeus, 1758

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* Glen Pownall, "New Zealand Shells and Shellfish", Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8


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