African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791)

AfReMaS taxon details

Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791)

Tellina distorta Poli, 1791Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 18.08.2009), actual size 15.6 mm

AphiaID

724452 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:724452)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Moerella P. Fischer, 1887

Orig. name

Tellina distorta Poli, 1791

Synonymised names

Atlantella distorta (Poli, 1791) · unaccepted

Tellina distorta Poli, 1791 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Tellina distorta Poli, 1791) Poli J.X. (1791). Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Ex Regio Typographeio, Parmae. Vol. 1: pp. i-lxxiii, [1-6], i-x, 1-90, 1-50, [1], 1-74, pls 1-18. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44019471
page(s): 39; pl. 15 fig. 11 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724452 on 2023-11-29

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2023). African Register of Marine Species. Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724452 on 2023-11-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-04-05 17:40:15Z

created

Sartori, André F.

2014-01-17 21:57:49Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2016-02-07 19:41:47Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2018-01-24 10:17:05Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Tellina distorta Poli, 1791) Poli J.X. (1791). Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Ex Regio Typographeio, Parmae. Vol. 1: pp. i-lxxiii, [1-6], i-x, 1-90, 1-50, [1], 1-74, pls 1-18. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44019471
page(s): 39; pl. 15 fig. 11 [details]

basis of record New combination, herein.
note: for consistency with the synonymy of Atlantella with Moerella; previously many authors included this species in Moerella at subgeneric level combined as Tellina (Moerell...

for consistency with the synonymy of Atlantella with Moerella; previously many authors included this species in Moerella at subgeneric level combined as Tellina (Moerella) or Angulus (Moerella)

[details]

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 592-593 [details]

Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (76 publications) (from synonym Tellina distorta Poli, 1791)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Tellina distorta POLI, 1795; Cité; F.B32978) (from synonym Tellina distorta Poli, 1791)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Tellina distorta Poli, 1791)

From editor or global species database

Tellina distorta Poli, 1791Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 18.08.2009), actual size 15.6 mm

Image from synonym

To MNHN Fossil collection (Tellina distorta POLI, 1795; Cité; F.B32978)

Hosted externally, from synonym

From other sources

Moerella distorta

Moerella distorta