Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spellings: Cytherea (Pitar), Meretrix (Pitar)
Synonyms: Caryatis Roemer 1862, Cytherea (Caryatis) Roemer 1862
Parent taxon: Pitarinae according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995
See also Adegoke 1977, Bouchet et al. 2010, da Silva Forti 1969, Durham 1944, Kiessling 2003, Lamprell and Whitehead 1992, Marasti 1973, Matsubara et al. 2010, Moore 1976, Morales-Ortega et al. 2016, Mukerjee 1939, Natori 1964, Perrilliat 1992, Rivera 1957, Rosenberg et al. 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Skwarko 1994, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Squires 1988, Squires 1999, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Stenzel et al. 1957, Todd 2001, Uozumi 1955, Vokes 1980, Vredenburg 1928, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Woodring 1982, Wozny 1977 and Zinsmeister 1983
Sister taxa: Amiantis, Callocardia, Callpita, Hysteroconcha, Goshoraia, Austrocallista, Dosiniopsis, Egrona, Lamelliconcha, Nitidavenus, Agriopoma, Rhaiphiale, Pseudaphrodina, Gilbertharrisella, Naulia, Trigonocallista, Lepidocardia, Callistalox, Rhabdopitaria, Notocallista, Marwickia, Loxo, Pelecyora, Larma, Lioconcha, Nutricola, Dollfusia, Costacallista, Saxidomus, Callistina, Pseudamiantis, Mesocallista, Rohea, Chimela, Katherinella, Aphrodina
Subtaxa: Cytherea (Caryatis) pratti Meretrix (Pitar) dalikiensis Meretrix (Pitar) elliptica Pitar (Calpitaria) Pitar (Chionella) Pitar (Cordiopsis) Pitar (Costellipitar) Pitar (Hyphantosoma) Pitar (Lamelliconcha) Pitar (Meisenia) Pitar (Nanopitar) Pitar (Omnivenus) Pitar (Paradione) Pitar (Pitar) Pitar (Pitar) nuttali Pitar (Pitarenus) Pitar (Pitarina) Pitar addicotti Pitar albidus Pitar barbarensis Pitar baylii Pitar cedroensis Pitar colchaguana Pitar cordatus Pitar diabloensis Pitar hataii Pitar kotoi Pitar mancorensis Pitar morrhuanus Pitar murphyi Pitar ozakii Pitar palmeri Pitar parisiensis Pitar petropolitanus Pitar porrecta Pitar quadratus Pitar rostratus Pitar salanga Pitar sciaena Pitar securiformis Pitar simpsoni Pitar sorachiensis Pitar stocki Pitar subarestus Pitar transversus Pitar uvasana Pitar vancouverensis
Type: Cytherea tumens
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (3 collections), Australia (1), Bermuda (3), Brazil (7), Cayman Islands (3), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (3), Haiti (3), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Kenya (7), Mayotte (1), Mexico (5), Morocco (1), Nauru (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Peru (2), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Taiwan (6), United States (52: California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (2), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (5), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (6), the Dominican Republic (2), Ecuador (6), Haiti (1), Italy (4), Jamaica (5), Japan (5), Pakistan (2), Panama (3), Peru (4), the Russian Federation (2), Trinidad and Tobago (10), the United Kingdom (6), United States (17: Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (4)
• Miocene of Argentina (7), Australia (1), Austria (5), Belgium (1), Brazil (13), Bulgaria (4), Colombia (6), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (7), France (2), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), India (4), Indonesia (5), Iran (3), Italy (3), Japan (5), Malaysia (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (26), Peru (2), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (9), United States (38: Alaska, California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Japan (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Oligocene of Argentina (2), Austria (5), Belgium (4), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Ecuador (1), France (36), Germany (1), Hungary (4), Japan (6), Mexico (5), Pakistan (2), Peru (4), Romania (7), Turkey (2), United States (73: Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (4), Belgium (3), Bulgaria (11), Colombia (7), Egypt (3), France (5), India (2), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (29), Mexico (4), Nigeria (6), Pakistan (1), Panama (3), Peru (2), Poland (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (10), the United Kingdom (22), United States (381: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington), Venezuela (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Belgium (3), France (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (125: Alabama, California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), USSR (2), United States (3: Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 1181 collections including 1370 occurrences
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