Meretrix yoakumi Gabb 1861 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1861. Descriptions of New Species of American Tertiary Fossils and a New Carboniferous Cephalopod from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13:367-372

Belongs to Meretrix according to W. M. Gabb 1861

See also Harris 1919

Sister taxa: Meretrix bosworthi, Meretrix cornelli, 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 persica, Meretrix pittsburgensis, Meretrix profunda, Meretrix pseudomeretrix, Meretrix shantii, Meretrix stantoni, Meretrix subimpressa, Meretrix sylvaerupis, Meretrix tularana, Meretrix uniomeris

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Meretrix yoakumi in the database

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