Pisidium Pfeiffer 1821 (pea clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae

Parent taxon: Pisidiinae according to O. Mandic et al. 2015

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Kiessling 2003, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Schultz and Cheatum 1970, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982

Sister taxa: Sphaerioides, Sphaerium, Lacustrina

Subtaxa: Pisidium amnicum Pisidium atopum Pisidium bellardii Pisidium casertanum Pisidium henslowianum Pisidium leslieae Pisidium medlicottianum Pisidium nitidum Pisidium obtusale Pisidium personatum Pisidium pulchellum Pisidium pusillum Pisidium solitarium Pisidium subtruncatum Pisidium victoriae Pisidium vincentianum Pisidium vukovici

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Type: Pisidium amnicum

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (3: Alberta, Ontario collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (1), Kenya (1), Poland (4), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (9: Arizona, California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, Virginia)

• Blancan of United States (1: Oregon)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1), Spain (5)

• Pliocene of Croatia (1), Spain (3), United States (1: Oregon)

• Miocene of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Croatia (2), Greece (1), Italy (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Turkey (2)

• Oligocene of Panama (2)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta)

Total: 61 collections including 78 occurrences

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