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Arcopagia (Bertinella) altera

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Taxonomy
Tellina altera was named by Deshayes (1857) [DISTRIBUTION: Eocene; western Europe.]. It is not a trace fossil.

It was recombined as Arcopagia altera by Piccoli and Savazzi (1983); it was recombined as Arcopagia (Bertinella) altera by Le Renard and Pacaud (1995).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. decorata, A. pseudocolpodes, A. ventricosa, A. serricostata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1857Tellina altera Deshayes pp. 338-339 figs. pl. 26, fig. 8-11
1983Arcopagia altera Piccoli and Savazzi
1995Arcopagia (Bertinella) altera Le Renard and Pacaud p. 69

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassHeteroconchia(Gray 1854)
—CardiomorphiFerussac 1822
RankNameAuthor
—CardioniFerussac 1822
—CardiidiaFerussac 1822
—CardiataFerussac 1822
superorderCardiiformiiFerussac 1822
orderCardiidaFerussac 1822
suborderCardiidinaFerussac 1822
—CardioideiFerussac 1822
superfamilyTellinoidea(Blainville 1814)
familyTellinidaeBlainville 1814
genusArcopagiaLeach 1827
subgenusBertinellaGilbert and van de Poel 1968
speciesaltera()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available