Mysidioptera tenella Bittner 1895 (file clam)

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

Full reference: A. Bittner. 1895. Revision der Lamellibranchiaten von St. Cassian. Abhandlungen der kaiserlich-koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 18(1):1-236

Belongs to Mysidioptera according to A. Bittner 1895

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 multistriata, 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 tenuicostata, Mysidioptera vixcostata, Mysidioptera woehrmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Cassian Formation of Italy.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at St. Cassian (K.K. Geol Reichsanstalt coll)

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