OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Bivalvia Veneroida Tellinidae 

Tellina arsinoensis Issel, 1869

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Tellina arsinoensis Issel, 1869
   Angulus arsinoensis (Issel, 1869)
   Tellina scitula Adams, 1871
   Tellina erythraea Römer, 1871

Distribution

Recorded throughout the Red Sea but much of Jousseaume's material is wrongly identified, Gulf of Suez is probably more accurate (Oliver, 1992). Eastern Arabia (Oliver, 1995)

  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea
  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Central and East Indian Ocean: Indo-Arabia: Persian Gulf (=Arabian Gulf)

Keywords

depth: intertidal 
habitat: intertial flats 
substrate: mud [ ]
substrate: sand 

References

 Oliver, P.G. 1992. p.156 [ Synonymy; distribution; biology and ecology; remarks ]  General reference
 Oliver, P.G. 1995. p.251, no. 1116 General reference

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Loboconcha
          Bivalvia
            Heterodonta
              Veneroida
                Tellinoidea
                  Tellinidae *
                    Tellininae
                      Tellina Linnaeus, 1758
                        Tellina arsinoensis Issel, 1869

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=58199) created by Peter Ulrik Middelfart on 2001-11-28. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-30.