Tapes lineatum Conrad 1856 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1856. Descriptions of three new genera; twenty-three new species Middle Tertiary fossils from California, and one from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:301-327

Belongs to Tapes according to T. A. Conrad 1856

Sister taxa: Tapes (Myrsopsis), Tapes (Ruditapes), Tapes (Siratoria), Tapes (Tapes), Tapes (Taurotapes), Tapes (Textrix), Tapes aurea, Tapes corrugatus, Tapes cretacea, Tapes dorsatus, Tapes hilgardi, Tapes literatus, Tapes perovalis, Tapes subundata, Tapes texturata, Tapes truncata, Tapes virginea

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Tapes lineatum in the database

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