Afrophysema eutornus Tomlin 1921 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Alternative combinations: Anodontia (Afrophysema) eutornus, Cryptodon eutornus

Full reference: J. R. B. Tomlin. 1921. Six new marine shells from South Africa. Journal of Conchology 16:215-217

Belongs to Afrophysema according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021

See also Taylor and Glover 2005 and Tomlin 1921

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NMW 1955.158.01013, a shell. Its type locality is Port Alfred, which is in a Pleistocene foreshore sandstone in South Africa.

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Port Alfred

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