Mysidioptera multistriata Broili 1904 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Full reference: F. Broili. 1904. Die Fauna Pachycardientuffe der Seiser Alp (mit Ausschluss der Gastropoden und Cephalopoden). Palaeontographica 50:145-227

Belongs to Mysidioptera according to F. Broili 1904

Sister taxa: Mysidioptera (Pseudacesta), Mysidioptera ambigua, Mysidioptera ampezzana, Mysidioptera angusticostata, Mysidioptera aviculaeformis, Mysidioptera baconica, Mysidioptera bassanii, Mysidioptera beneckei, Mysidioptera bittneri, Mysidioptera cainalli, Mysidioptera carinata, Mysidioptera cassiana, Mysidioptera cimbrianica, Mysidioptera compressa, Mysidioptera crassicostata, Mysidioptera densestriata, Mysidioptera dieneri, Mysidioptera dinarica, Mysidioptera dubiosa, Mysidioptera elongata, Mysidioptera emiliae, Mysidioptera fassaensis, Mysidioptera finkelsteini, Mysidioptera fornicata, Mysidioptera glaberrima, Mysidioptera globosa, Mysidioptera globularis, Mysidioptera gracilis, Mysidioptera gremblichii, Mysidioptera inaequicostata, Mysidioptera interrupta, Mysidioptera intertexta, Mysidioptera inversa, Mysidioptera kittlii, Mysidioptera klipsteiniana, Mysidioptera kochi, Mysidioptera laczkoi, Mysidioptera latifissa, Mysidioptera marginata, Mysidioptera multicostata, Mysidioptera obliqua, Mysidioptera oblonga, Mysidioptera obscura, Mysidioptera ornata, Mysidioptera planata, Mysidioptera punctata, Mysidioptera readi, Mysidioptera reyeri, Mysidioptera riceae, Mysidioptera rotunda, Mysidioptera silvatica, Mysidioptera similis, Mysidioptera spinescens, Mysidioptera spinigera, Mysidioptera striata, Mysidioptera striatula, Mysidioptera tenella, Mysidioptera tenuicostata, Mysidioptera vixcostata, Mysidioptera woehrmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Pachycardientuff Fauna, Seiser Alm, which is in a Longobardian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Pachycardientuff Fauna, Seiser Alm

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