Macoma tenuiplicata Bartrum 1919 (tellin clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae

Alternative combination: Raeta tenuiplicata

Full reference: J. A. Bartrum. 1919. New Fossil Mollusca. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 51:96-100

Belongs to Macoma according to Powell and Bartrum 1930

See also Bartrum 1919 and Beu et al. 1990

Sister taxa: Macoma (Austromacoma), Macoma (Bendemacoma), Macoma (Heteromacoma), Macoma (Macoma), Macoma (Macoploma), Macoma (Panacoma), Macoma (Psammacoma), Macoma (Rexithaerus), Macoma (Salmacoma), Macoma (Scissulina), Macoma albaria, Macoma astori, Macoma brota, Macoma constricta, Macoma costaricana, Macoma danai, Macoma edentula, Macoma elongata, Macoma fusca, Macoma inornata, Macoma kirkinskayae, Macoma lenis, Macoma limula, Macoma lissoni, Macoma marylandica, Macoma meroensis, Macoma montesanoensis, Macoma nasuta, Macoma osakaensis, Macoma pabloensis, Macoma simizuensis, Macoma snohomishensis, Macoma sookensis, Macoma tenta, Macoma tigilensis, Macoma uruguayensis, Macoma viticola, Macoma wilcoxi, Macoma wynootcheensis, Macoma yamadai

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kaawa Creek, which is in an Opoitian marine sandstone in the Kaawa Formation of New Zealand

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder

Distribution: found only at Kaawa Creek

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