Cytherea murrayana Tate 1887 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: R. Tate. 1887. The Lamellibranchs of the older Tertiary of Australia (Part 2). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 9:142-189

Belongs to Cytherea according to R. Tate 1887

Sister taxa: Cytherea adabionensis, Cytherea aequorea, Cytherea ambigua, Cytherea astartiformis, Cytherea avia, Cytherea capillacea, Cytherea corbuloides, Cytherea curionii, Cytherea elegantula, Cytherea elliptica, Cytherea erycinoides, Cytherea eversa, Cytherea gruneri, Cytherea humerosa, Cytherea hunteri, Cytherea imitabilis, Cytherea jerdoni, Cytherea lamberti, Cytherea mississippiensis, Cytherea mortoni, Cytherea nuttali, Cytherea obsoleta, Cytherea orbicularis, Cytherea paucirugata, Cytherea pectinata, Cytherea perbrevis, Cytherea poulsoni, Cytherea rawesi, Cytherea rhaetica, Cytherea scinctilla, Cytherea sobrina, Cytherea soror, Cytherea subcrassa, Cytherea submultistriata, Cytherea tenuidentata, Cytherea trigoniata, Cytherea wapsharei, Cytherea wilsoni, Cytherea wohltmanni

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cytherea murrayana in the database

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