Cleidophorus delawarensis Girty 1909 (clam)

Bivalvia - Protobranchia - Cucullellidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1909. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Belongs to Cleidophorus according to G. H. Girty 1909

Sister taxa: Nuculites (Gonionuculites), Nuculites argentinum, Nuculites ichikawai, Nuculites kimuari, Nuculites neglectus, Nuculites oblongatus, Nuculites planulatus, Nuculites primus, Nuculites stonyensis, Nuculites suboblongatus, Nuculites wattii, Cleidophorus eductus, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus perdubius, Cleidophorus striatulus, Cleidophorus trapezoidalis, Cleidophorus catherinae, Cleidophorus hollebeni, Cleidophorus planulata, Cucullella antiqua, Pyrenomoeus cuneatus

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cleidophorus delawarensis in the database

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