Tellina canalensis was named by Catullo (1847). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Anodontophora canalensis by Bittner (1899), Spath (1930) and Newell and Kummel (1942); it was recombined as Myacites canalensis by Bittner (1901); it was recombined as Anoplophora canalensis by Wittenburg (1912); it was recombined as Anodontophora (Myacites) canalensis by Ogilvie Gordon (1927); it was recombined as Austrotindaria canalensis by Foster et al. (2017) and Foster et al. (2019); it was recombined as Unionites canalensis by Ciriacks (1963), Nakazawa (1971), Chen et al. (1974), Gu et al. (1976), Chen (1982), Neri and Posenato (1985), Sha (1995), Kumagae and Nakazawa (2009), Hofmann and Hautmann (2013), Hofmann et al. (2013), Hautmann et al. (2013), Hofmann et al. (2015) and Biakov and Kutygin (2021).