Ctenoides spathulatus Lamarck 1806 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Alternative combination: Lima spathulata

Full reference: J. -B. Lamarck. 1806. Mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris (suite 6). Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 7:53-430

Belongs to Ctenoides according to M. Glibert 1975

See also Lamarck 1806

Sister taxa: Ctenoides (Ctenoides), Ctenoides ales, Ctenoides annulata, Ctenoides annulatus, Ctenoides vogeli, Lima (Ctenoides) delettrei, Lima (Ctenoides) flabelloides, Lima (Ctenoides) rara

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Beloslav (Eocene of Bulgaria)

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