Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Alternative spelling: Macoma (Tellina)
Parent taxon: Tellinidae according to S. Schneider et al. 2005
See also Adegoke 1977, Böhm and Weisfermel 1913, Bouchet et al. 2010, Clark and Arnold 1923, Coan et al. 2000, Deshayes 1857, Durham 1944, Freneix et al. 1988, Gardner 1943, Gardner 1947, Glenn 1904, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Moore 1969, Moore 1976, Moore 2003, Morales-Ortega et al. 2016, Mukerjee 1939, Nagao 1928, Nagao 1928, Oostingh 1935, Packard 1922, Perrilliat 1992, Russell and Landes 1937, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1987, Squires 1999, Vokes 1980, Ward and Blackwelder 1987 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Acorylus, Ameritella, Arcopagia, Arcopagiinae, Barytellina, Cymatoica, Florimetis, Fragilia, Gastrana, Idatellina, Lavignon, Lutricola, Macoma, Macominae, Maera, Merisca, Metis, Nelltia, Peiricola, Serratina, Sourimis, Strigillinae, Tellina obruta, Tellininae
Subtaxa: Tellina (Arcopagia) gabbi Tellina (Cadella) Tellina (Cyclotellina) Tellina (Elliptotellina) Tellina (Eurytellina) Tellina (Fabulina) Tellina (Finlayella) Tellina (Gastranopsis) Tellina (Homalina) Tellina (Laciolina) Tellina (Loxoglypta) Tellina (Macaliopsis) Tellina (Macomona) Tellina (Megangulus) Tellina (Miratellina) Tellina (Moerella) Tellina (Nitidotellina) Tellina (Olcesia) Tellina (Oudardia) Tellina (Peronaea) Tellina (Peronidia) Tellina (Phyllodina) Tellina (Pseudarcopagia) victoriae Tellina (Saulella) Tellina (Scutarcopagia) Tellina (Scutocopagia) Tellina (Sinuosipagia) Tellina (Tellina) Tellina (Tellinella) Tellina (Tellinidella) Tellina actutangula Tellina aequalis Tellina albinelloides Tellina alisoensis Tellina alta Tellina ashburnerii Tellina asperrima Tellina australis Tellina balaustina Tellina barrandei Tellina bavarica Tellina benedenii Tellina bernayi Tellina beyrichi Tellina brevirostralis Tellina brimonti Tellina buboana Tellina bullula Tellina burmeisteri Tellina cainozoica Tellina capsoides Tellina cherokeensis Tellina collustrata Tellina cossmanni Tellina couvaensis Tellina cowlitzensis Tellina cumana Tellina cupressensis Tellina cynoglossula Tellina decurtata Tellina diegoana Tellina distans Tellina distorta Tellina divaricata Tellina donacilla Tellina donacina Tellina dowlingi Tellina edentula Tellina edwardsi Tellina egena Tellina elliptica Tellina equideclivis Tellina equilateralis Tellina eugenia Tellina euryterma Tellina exarata Tellina fabula Tellina flexuosa Tellina foliacea Tellina fraasi Tellina geulemensis Tellina gibber Tellina hoffmanniana Tellina idonea Tellina isonema Tellina kincaidi Tellina lata Tellina leana Tellina lilium Tellina longicallus Tellina luederitzi Tellina madagascariensis Tellina masinguiensis Tellina masoni Tellina maylandensis Tellina merangiana Tellina merriami Tellina minima Tellina modesta Tellina molengraaffi Tellina nitida Tellina oregonensis Tellina palatam Tellina panamensis Tellina parilis Tellina patula Tellina pectorosa Tellina perrini Tellina phylloides Tellina pilgrimi Tellina pinguis Tellina pittsburgensis Tellina planata Tellina pondicherriensis Tellina porrecta Tellina praecuta Tellina protostriatula Tellina pulchella Tellina pygmaea Tellina quadrata Tellina radiata Tellina ralphi Tellina rastella Tellina redmondii Tellina remies Tellina remondii Tellina ruderata Tellina rugosa Tellina santana Tellina santarosae Tellina scandula Tellina segregata Tellina serica Tellina serrata Tellina sillimani Tellina soledadensis Tellina songoensis Tellina staurella Tellina subequalis Tellina sutterensis Tellina tallicheti Tellina tehachapi Tellina temperata Tellina tenuis Tellina transversa Tellina tricarinata Tellina trumani Tellina truncata Tellina vancouverensis Tellina venezuelensis Tellina verneuili Tellina vicksburgensis Tellina virginiana Tellina williamsi Tellina wilsoni Tellina woodmanensis Tellina woodwardi
Type: Tellina radiata
Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (6), the Bahamas (3), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Ontario), Cayman Islands (2), Chile (1), China (1), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (1), Djibouti (4), Ecuador (4), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), France (2), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (4), India (1), Iran (1), Italy (3), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Kenya (2), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (5), Mexico (7), Morocco (2), Namibia (3), Panama (3), the Philippines (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (13), Spain (1), Sweden (1), Thailand (3), Tonga (1), Turkey (2), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (79: California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina), Uruguay (3), Venezuela (3)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Algeria (2), Australia (3), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (8), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Holy See (Vatican City State) (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (1), Jamaica (5), Japan (7), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Panama (10), the Philippines (2), the Russian Federation (4), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (12), the United Kingdom (2), United States (36: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (8)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (3), Argentina (4), Australia (10), Austria (3), Brazil (7), Chile (6), Colombia (13), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), the Dominican Republic (9), Ecuador (7), France (2), Germany (6), Haiti (3), India (9), Indonesia (8), Italy (3), Japan (19), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (5), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Panama (75), Peru (6), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (11), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Sri Lanka (1), Trinidad and Tobago (11), United States (100: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), Haiti (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Alaska, Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Austria (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), Denmark (1), France (19), India (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), Panama (5), Romania (1), United States (98: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Haiti (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Belgium (2), Bulgaria (5), China (1), Colombia (4), Croatia (3), France (9), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (9), Mexico (6), Namibia (1), New Zealand (12), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (3), Panama (6), Peru (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Senegal (1), Somalia (1), Spain (14), the United Kingdom (14), United States (299: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: California)
• Paleogene of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), China (3), Denmark (5), Egypt (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (88: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Algeria (1), Brazil (3), Cameroon (7), Canada (16: Alberta, Saskatachewan), Chile (1), France (1), Germany (2), India (2), Jamaica (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Sweden (1), Switzerland (6), Tunisia (1), United States (151: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), Greenland (2), Tanzania (2)
• Triassic of China (2), Germany (6)
Total: 1547 collections including 2047 occurrences
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