Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Alternative combination: Venus tigerina
Synonyms: Codakia exasperata Reeve 1850, Lucina exasperata Reeve 1850
Belongs to Codakia according to J. Taylor and E. Glover 2021
See also Azzaroli 1958, Glover and Taylor 2007, Wilson 2002 and Xu 2012
Sister taxa: Codakia (Codakia), Codakia distinguenda, Codakia interrupta, Codakia orbicularis, Codakia paytenorum, Codakia planatella, Codakia punctata, Pexocodakia rugifera
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal chemosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Djibouti (4 collections), Egypt (2), Eritrea (4), Iran (1), Saudi Arabia (4), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), Tanzania (1), Tonga (1), Yemen (6)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of Somalia (1)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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