Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Alternative combinations: Arca pectinata, Glycymeris (Tucetona) pectinata, Glycymeris pectinata
Belongs to Tucetona according to A. J. W. Hendy et al. 2008
See also De Buisonjé 1974, Richards et al. 1969, Tschudin 2001 and Woodring 1973
Sister taxa: Glycymeris (Tucetona) evermanni, Glycymeris (Tucetona) fresnoensis, Glycymeris (Tucetona) perrini, Glycymeris (Tucetona) ruckmani, Glycymeris (Tucetona) tenuimbricata, Glycymeris (Tucetona) verticordia, Tucetona (Bellaxinaea), Tucetona acuticostata, Tucetona angusticosta, Tucetona arata, Tucetona auriflua, Tucetona broadfooti, Tucetona castaneus, Tucetona convexus, Tucetona democraciana, Tucetona finlayi, Tucetona flabellata, Tucetona gealei, Tucetona hoylei, Tucetona lamyi, Tucetona laticostata, Tucetona lenticularis, Tucetona oculatus, Tucetona odhneri, Tucetona pectunculus, Tucetona sabinensis, Tucetona scalarisculpta, Tucetona sordida, Tucetona strigilata, Tucetona subtilis, Tucetona usiacurii
Subtaxa: Tucetona pectinata canalis
Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (3 collections), Bermuda (2), Dominica (1), Haiti (1), Japan (1), United States (14: Florida, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (2), Costa Rica (4), Greece (2), Italy (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (3: Florida, Virginia), Venezuela (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (4), Cyprus (1), Greece (2), Panama (13), United States (5: Florida), Venezuela (24)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Venezuela (1)
Total: 95 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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