MSBIAS taxon details

Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758)

147021 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147021)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Bivalvia
  5. Autobranchia
  6. Heteroconchia
  7. Euheterodonta
  8. Imparidentia
  9. Cardiida
  10. Tellinoidea
  11. Tellinidae
  12. Moerellinae
  13. Moerella
  14. Moerella donacina
accepted
Species
Moerella P. Fischer, 1887
Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 676 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147021 on 2026-09-03
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147021 on 2026-09-03
Date
action
by
2005-03-01 09:59:49Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2012-02-28 21:03:24Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2014-01-17 21:57:49Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2020-01-09 08:10:12Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe

original description (of Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 676 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Brunetti, M. M. & Della Bella, G. (2023). La Famiglia Tellinidae Blainville, 1814, nel Plio-Pleistocene dell'Europa meridionale, terza e ultima parte: i generi <i>Macomopsis</i> Sacco, 1901 e <i>Moerella</i> P. Fischer, 1887 con descrizione di quattro specie nuove. <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 58(2): 188-213., available online at https://doi.org/10.53559/bollmalacol.2023.07
page(s): 202, figs 8E-G [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Lesport J.-F., Lozouet P., Pacaud J.-M., Rocher P., Renard P. & Favia R. (2019). Les Bivalvia de l'Aquitanien (Miocène inférieur) de Saucats "Lariey" (Gironde, Sud-Ouest France). 2.- Heterodonta (Première partie). <em>Cossmanniana.</em> 21: 3-99.
page(s): 35, pl. 15 figs 5-6 [details] 

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/fft48
page(s): 590-591 [details] 
 
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Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (247 publications) (from synonym Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Moerella donacina) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758) Bailiwick of Guernsey, Herm, Shell Beach , beach... 
To Malacopics (Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758) Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen) 
To Malacopics (Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758) Guernsey, Herm, Shell Beach, beached, collected ... 
To Malacopics (Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758) Netherlands, Zeeland, Domburg) 
To Malacopics (Moerella donacina (Linnaeus,1758) France, Bretagne, Finistère, Ile Molène) 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales (from synonym Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758)
To PESI (from synonym Tellina donacina Linnaeus, 1758)
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Angulus donacinus (Linnaeus, 1758))
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