Beauvoisina carinata Kiel et al. 2010 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: S. Kiel, K. A. Campbell, and C. Gaillard. 2010. New and little known mollusks from ancient chemosynthetic environments. Zoootaxa 2390:26-48

Belongs to Beauvoisina according to S. Kiel et al. 2010

See also Kiel 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FSL 286 459, a shell. Its type locality is Montagne de la Taillade, Beauvoisin, cold seep mounds, which is in an Oxfordian reef, buildup or bioherm marl in the Terres Noires Formation of France.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Montagne de la Taillade, Beauvoisin, cold seep mounds

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