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Angulus Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 
AphiaID: 146491

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Tellinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Tellina lanceolata Gmelin, 1791 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Tellinidae Blainville, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Fabulina Gray, 1851 (synonym)
Tellina (Angulus) Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Tellina (Fabulina) Gray, 1851
Sources  basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: TMAP - Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program database, available online at http://www.waddensea-secretariat.org/TMAP/Monitoring.html [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Norwegian Bokmål tallerkenskjell  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk tallerkenskjel  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Angulus agilis (Stimpson, 1857)
Species Angulus armatus (G.B. Sowerby II, 1868)
Species Angulus camachoi (Macsotay & Campos, 2001)
Species Angulus coloratus (Dall, 1900)
Species Angulus compressissimus G.B. Sowerby II, 1869
Species Angulus corbuloides (Hanley, 1844)
Species Angulus diantha (Boss, 1964)
Species Angulus emarginatus (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Species Angulus euvitreus (Boss, 1964)
Species Angulus exerythrus (Boss, 1964)
Species Angulus fabula (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Angulus flaccus (Römer, 1871)
Species Angulus gibber (Ihering, 1907)
Species Angulus incarnatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Angulus lanceolatus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Angulus merus (Say, 1834)
Species Angulus modestus (Carpenter, 1864)
Species Angulus nuculoides (Reeve, 1854)
Species Angulus paramerus (Boss, 1964)
Species Angulus probinus (Boss, 1964)
Species Angulus psammotellus (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Angulus pygmaeus (Lovén, 1846)
Species Angulus sybariticus (Dall, 1881)
Species Angulus tampaensis (Conrad, 1866)
Species Angulus tenellus A. E. Verrill, 1874
Species Angulus tenuis (da Costa, 1778)
Species Angulus texanus (Dall, 1900)
Species Angulus versicolor (De Kay, 1843)
Species Angulus vestalioides (Yokoyama, 1920)
Species Angulus vestalis (Hanley, 1844)

Species Angulus amiantus (Dall, 1900) accepted as Tellina amianta Dall, 1900
Species Angulus carpenteri (Dall, 1903) accepted as Tellina carpenteri Dall, 1900
Species Angulus cerrosianus (Dall, 1900) accepted as Tellina amianta Dall, 1900
Species Angulus coani (Keen, 1971) accepted as Tellina coani Keen, 1971
Species Angulus corbis (Sowerby II, 1867) accepted as Tellina carnicolor Hanley, 1846 accepted as Clathrotellina carnicolor (Hanley, 1846)
Species Angulus donacinus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Angulus flacca [sic] accepted as Angulus flaccus (Römer, 1871)
Species Angulus gouldii Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Tellina meropsis Dall, 1900
Species Angulus hawaiensis Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 accepted as Tellinides ovalis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Species Angulus meropsis (Dall, 1900) accepted as Tellina meropsis Dall, 1900
Species Angulus philippinarum (Hanley, 1844) accepted as Moerella philippinarum (Hanley, 1844)
Species Angulus planatus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Peronaea planata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Angulus recurvatus (Hertlein & Strong, 1949) accepted as Tellina tabogensis Salisbury, 1934
Species Angulus squalidus (Pulteney, 1799) accepted as Angulus incarnatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Angulus tabogensis (Salisbury, 1934) accepted as Tellina tabogensis Salisbury, 1934
Species Angulus variegatus Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Tellina carpenteri Dall, 1900
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  TaxonomyAngulus is potentially a valid genus but, in the absence of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the Tellinidae, most European tellinid species are accepted under Tellina taken in a broad sense.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146491
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-01-25 08:49:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-04-14 07:47:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2011-03-11 10:49:03Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
2013-03-31 09:47:20Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Angulus Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146491 on 2013-05-21
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