Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Belongs to Meretrix according to Dall 1900
See also Clark 1918, Clark 1925, Dall 1903, Hendy 2020, Moore 1976 and Weaver 1942
Sister taxa: Meretrix (Cordiopsis), Meretrix bosworthi, Meretrix cornelli, Meretrix decisa, Meretrix desvauxi, Meretrix gabbi, Meretrix hikoshimensis, Meretrix indica, Meretrix landesi, Meretrix longa, Meretrix macbeani, Meretrix marshana, Meretrix mortoni, Meretrix negritosensis, Meretrix neusensis, Meretrix nuttalliopsis, Meretrix persica, Meretrix profunda, Meretrix pseudomeretrix, Meretrix shantii, Meretrix stantoni, Meretrix subimpressa, Meretrix sylvaerupis, Meretrix tularana, Meretrix uniomeris, Meretrix yoakumi
Type specimen: USNM 107396, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Meretrix pittsburgensis in the database
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