Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Veneroida > Superfamily Tellinoidea > Family Tellinidae > Subfamily Tellininae > Genus Moerella

Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Moerella*	P. Fischer, 1887	accepted genus name
*Asbjornsenia*	Friele, 1886	synonym
*Tellina (Moerella)*	P. Fischer, 1887	synonym

Species group names

*Tellina donacina*	Linnaeus, 1758	basionym; alternate representation
*Angulus donacinus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Tellina donacina*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym; alternate representation
*Tellina donacina var. blanci*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. disma*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. ialinella*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. longicallopsis*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. pica*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. prismaticopsis*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. sterica*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. tenisa*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. terina*	de Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina donacina var. turtoni*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1886	synonym
*Tellina lantivyi*	Payraudeau, 1826	synonym
*Tellina trifasciata*	Pennant, 1777	synonym

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.

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Citation

Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147021