Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Full reference: S. Hislop. 1859. On the Tertiary deposits, associated with trap-rock, in the East Indes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:154-182
Belongs to Cytherea according to S. Hislop 1859
Sister taxa: Cytherea adabionensis, Cytherea aequorea, Cytherea ambigua, Cytherea astartiformis, Cytherea avia, Cytherea capillacea, Cytherea corbuloides, Cytherea curionii, Cytherea elegantula, Cytherea erycinoides, Cytherea eversa, Cytherea gruneri, Cytherea humerosa, Cytherea hunteri, Cytherea imitabilis, Cytherea jerdoni, Cytherea lamberti, Cytherea mississippiensis, Cytherea mortoni, Cytherea murrayana, Cytherea nuttali, Cytherea obsoleta, Cytherea orbicularis, Cytherea orbiculata, Cytherea oregonensis, Cytherea paucirugata, Cytherea pectinata, Cytherea perbrevis, Cytherea poulsoni, Cytherea rawesi, Cytherea rhaetica, Cytherea rothi, Cytherea scinctilla, Cytherea sobrina, Cytherea soror, Cytherea subcrassa, Cytherea submultistriata, Cytherea tenuidentata, Cytherea trigoniata, Cytherea wapsharei, Cytherea wilsoni, Cytherea wohltmanni
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cytherea elliptica in the database
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