Venus mitsuiana Yokoyama 1911 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: M. Yokoyama. 1911. Some Tertiary fossils from the Miike coal-field. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo 27:1-16

Belongs to Venus according to M. Yokoyama 1911

Sister taxa: Venus (Mioclausinella), Venus (Ventricoloidea), Venus (Venus), Venus anceps, Venus arcotensis, Venus arroyoensis, Venus biplicata, Venus brioniana, Venus chilensis, Venus cleryana, Venus collinium, Venus conformis, Venus corella, Venus crenatula, Venus cythereaeformis, Venus deleta, Venus delicatula, Venus depressa, Venus ebergenyii, Venus eximia, Venus fallaciosa, Venus foveolata, Venus geslini, Venus inopinata, Venus insula, Venus kennerlyi, Venus lenticularis, Venus martini, Venus mekranica, Venus nux, Venus petricosa, Venus pseudoscalaris, Venus quadrata, Venus retisculpta, Venus sulcata, Venus tetrahedra, Venus turgescens, Venus vespertina, Venus victoriana, Venus virginiana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Manda, Miike Coal-field (277 feet depth), which is in a Bartonian marine sandstone in Japan

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Manda, Miike Coal-field (277 feet depth)

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