Tapes texturata Lamarck 1818 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative combination: Venus texturata

Belongs to Tapes according to S. V. Wood 1850

Sister taxa: Tapes (Myrsopsis), Tapes (Ruditapes), Tapes (Siratoria), Tapes (Tapes), Tapes (Taurotapes), Tapes (Textrix), Tapes aurea, Tapes corrugatus, Tapes cretacea, Tapes dorsatus, Tapes hilgardi, Tapes lineatum, Tapes literatus, Tapes perovalis, Tapes subundata, Tapes truncata, Tapes virginea

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Walton-on-the-Naze, Suffolk [Red Crag] (Pliocene of the United Kingdom)

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