Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Galeommatida > Superfamily Galeommatoidea > Family Lasaeidae > Subfamily Montacutinae > Genus Tellimya

Tellimya ferruginosa (Montagu, 1808)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tellimya*	T. Brown, 1827	accepted genus name
*Decipula*	Jeffreys, 1876	synonym
*Montacuta (Tellimya)*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym

Species group names

*Mya ferruginea*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Erycina anodon*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	synonym
*Erycina franciscana*	Récluz, 1845	synonym
*Montacuta ferruginosa*	(Montagu, 1808)	synonym
*Montacuta oblonga*	W. Turton, 1822	synonym
*Montaguia ferruginea*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Mya ferruginosa*	Montagu, 1808	synonym
*Tellimya elliptica*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym
*Tellimya glabrum*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym
*Tellimya nivea*	G. O. Sars, 1878	synonym
*Thracia elongata*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: ovaal zeeklitschelpje sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: rusty Montagu shell sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Längliche Linsenmuschel; Rostrote Mondmuschel

Literature

additional source	Popham, M. L. (1940). The mantle cavity of some of the Erycinidae, Montacutidae and Galeommatidae with special reference to the ciliary mechanisms. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 24(2): 549-587.
additional source	Oldfield, E. (1961). The functional morphology of Kellia suborbicularis (Montagu), Montacuta ferruginosa (Montagu) and M. substriata (Montagu) (Mollusca, Lamellibranchiata. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 34: 255-295.
additional source	Gage J. (1966). Observations on the bivalves Montacuta substriata and M. ferruginosa, 'commensals' with spatangoids. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 46: 49-70.
additional source	van Aartsen J.J. (1997). Galeommatacea e Cyamiacea. Parte II. La Conchiglia 281: 27-53, 61
additional source	Marquet, R. (2005). The Neogene Bivalvia (Heterodonta and Anomalodesmata) and Scaphopoda from Kallo and Doel (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium). Palaeontos. 6: 1-142, pls 1-62.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tellimya ferruginosa (Montagu, 1808). 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:146952