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Tellins and Allies
Tellinidae
The Tellinidae are a family of marine bivalve molluscs of the order Veneroida. commonly known as tellins or tellens. They live fairly deep in soft sediments in shallow seas and respire using long siphons that reach up to the surface of the sediment.
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
Macominae
subfamilyMacominae
Tellininae
subfamilyTellininae
Arcopagiinae
subfamilyArcopagiinae
Strigillinae
subfamilyStrigillinae
Gastraninae
subfamilyGastraninae
Apolymetinae
subfamilyApolymetinae
Moerellinae
subfamilyMoerellinae
Phyllodainae
subfamilyPhyllodainae
Dellius
genusDellius
Aenigmotellininae
subfamilyAenigmotellininae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Tellinidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71253.