original description
Braun, A. (1851). Darstellung der geognostischen Verhältnisse des Mainzer Beckens und seiner fossilen Fauna und Flora. In: Walchner, F.A. (Ed.) Handbuch der Geognosie zum Gebrauche bei seinen Vorlesungen und zum Selbststudium mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geognostischen Verhältnisse des Grossherzogthums Baden. Christian Theodor Gross, Karlsruhe, pp. 1121-1169.
page(s): 1116 [details]
original description
(of Tellina faba F. Sandberger, 1861 †) Sandberger, C. L. F. (1858-1863). <i>Die Conchylien des Mainzer Tertiärbeckens</i>. 1-458, pls 1-35. Kreidel und Niedner Verlagshandlung. Wiesbaden [Heft 1: 1-40, pl. 1-5 (1858), Heft 2: 41-72, pl. 6-10 (1858), Heft 3: 73-112, pl. 11-15 (1859), Heft 4: 113-152, pl. 16-20 (1860), Heft 5-6: 153-232, pl. 21-30 (1861), Heft 7: 233-270, pl. 31-35 (1862), Heft 8: 283-468 (1863)]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13953#/summary
page(s): pl. 23, fig. 5-5d; note: description on p. 295-296 appeared in 1863 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Sandberger (1863) listed Cyrena ambigua without discussion in the synonymy of his Tellina faba Sandberger, 1861. That name is a junior objective synonym of Cyrena ambigua (as well as a junior homonym of Tellina faba Spengler, 1798). Cyrena ambigua can, however, not be used either as accepted name, because the combination with Tellina would make it a junior secondary homonym of Tellina ambigua J. de C. Sowerby, 1823. Taxon needs revision. [details]