WoRMS name details
original description
Stimpson, W. (1858). Scientific Intelligence - Botany and Zoology. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> 25:124-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27560147 page(s): p. 125 (in text) [details]
basis of record
Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source
Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Gilbert, W. H. & Suchow, E. F. (1977). Predation by winter flounder (<i>Pseudopleuronectes americanus</i>) on the siphons of the clam, <i>Tellina agilis</i>. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 91(1): 16-17, fig. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8273501 [details]
additional source
Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Nom. nov. pro Tellina tenera Say, 1822 (non-Schrank, 1803) [details]From other sources
Dimensions reaches 2 cm in size [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence to Georgia [details]
Habitat intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Reproduction separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]
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English |
northern dwarf-tellinnorthern dwarf tellindwarf tellin |
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French |
telline naine du nord |
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German |
Nordatlantische Zwerg-Tellmuschel |
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