Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Alternative combinations: Venericardia (Venericardia) urutiensis, Venericardia urutiensis
Full reference: J. A. Marwick. 1926. New Tertiary Mollusca from North Taranaki. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 56:317-331
Belongs to Purpurocardia according to A. G. Beu et al. 1990
See also Fleming 1966 and Marwick 1926
Sister taxa: Purpurocardia beata, Purpurocardia fyfei, Purpurocardia haskelli, Purpurocardia lillei, Purpurocardia penerectangularis, Purpurocardia perscrupulosa, Purpurocardia purpurata, Purpurocardia southlandica, Purpurocardia titirangiensis, Purpurocardia waikohuensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Purpurocardia urutiensis in the database
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