Tapes literatus Linnaeus 1758 (venus clam)

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Belongs to Tapes according to B. Wilson 2002

See also Lamprell and Whitehead 1992

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 lineatum, Tapes perovalis, Tapes subundata, Tapes texturata, Tapes truncata, Tapes virginea

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dampier Limestone, Broadhurst Bight (Quaternary of Australia)

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