Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Cardiida > Superfamily Tellinoidea > Family Tellinidae > Subfamily Moerellinae > Genus Moerella

Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Moerella*	P. Fischer, 1887	accepted genus name
*Atlantella*	M. Huber, Langleit & Kreipl, 2015	synonym
*Psammotaea*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Tellina (Moerella)*	P. Fischer, 1887	synonym

Species group names

*Atlantella pulchella*	(Lamarck, 1818)	synonym
*Tellina (Tellinella) pulchella*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Tellina lineolata*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Tellina pulchella*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Tellina pulchella var. centralis*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina pulchella var. polii*	De Gregorio, 1885	synonym
*Tellina pulchella var. rosea*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1898	synonym
*Tellinella pulchella*	(Lamarck, 1818)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Brunetti, M. M. & Della Bella, G. (2023). La Famiglia Tellinidae Blainville, 1814, nel Plio-Pleistocene dell'Europa meridionale, terza e ultima parte: i generi Macomopsis Sacco, 1901 e Moerella P. Fischer, 1887 con descrizione di quattro specie nuove. Bollettino Malacologico. 58(2): 188-213.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1055920