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

Moerella P. Fischer, 1887

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Children

Moerella citrina (Monterosato, 1884)
Moerella distorta (Poli, 1791)
Moerella donacina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Moerella extransversa Brunetti & Della Bella, 2023
Moerella pulchella (Lamarck, 1818)
Moerella rubicincta (Tryon, 1869)

Literature

basis of record	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
additional source	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
status source	Raines B. & Huber M. (2012) Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Sala y Gomez bivalves. Zootaxa 3217: 1-106. [29 Feb. 2012]

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Moerella P. Fischer, 1887. 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:147020