Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Alternative spelling: Cytherea (Meretrix)
Parent taxon: Meretricinae according to S. Mendir et al. 2021
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Brown and Pilsbry 1911, Nagao 1928, Packard 1922, Pugaczewska 1984, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woods 1922
Sister taxa: Aeora, Cytherea, Cytheriopsis, Eomeretrix, Grateloupia, Meretricini, Meretrissa, Resatrix, Tivela, Tivelina
Subtaxa: 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 profunda Meretrix pseudomeretrix Meretrix shantii Meretrix stantoni Meretrix subimpressa Meretrix sylvaerupis Meretrix tularana Meretrix uniomeris Meretrix yoakumi
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection), Morocco (1), Spain (3)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (2), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (1)
• Miocene of Cyprus (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Japan (7), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Oligocene of Ecuador (1), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), United States (2: North Carolina)
• Eocene of Croatia (4), France (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (2), Japan (2), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (1), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (10: California, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Pakistan (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Argentina (16), Egypt (2), Libya (1), Pakistan (1), United States (15: Alabama, California)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Chile (1), Egypt (14), Israel (11), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (4: California, Mississippi, Tennessee)
Total: 142 collections including 155 occurrences
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