Meretrix persica Cox 1936 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: L. R. Cox. 1936. Fossil Mollusca from southern Persia (Iran) and Bahrein Island. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 22(2):1-67

Belongs to Meretrix according to L. R. Cox 1936

Sister taxa: Meretrix bosworthi, Meretrix cornelli, Meretrix dalli, Meretrix decisa, Meretrix desvauxi, Meretrix gabbi, Meretrix hikoshimensis, Meretrix indica, Meretrix landesi, Meretrix longa, Meretrix macbeani, Meretrix marshana, Meretrix mortoni, Meretrix negritosensis, Meretrix neusensis, Meretrix nuttalliopsis, Meretrix pittsburgensis, Meretrix profunda, Meretrix pseudomeretrix, Meretrix shantii, Meretrix stantoni, Meretrix subimpressa, Meretrix sylvaerupis, Meretrix tularana, Meretrix uniomeris, Meretrix yoakumi

Type specimen: K9/908, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of India (3 collections), Iran (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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