Meretrix

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Bivalvia
Subclassis: Heterodonta
Ordo: Veneroida
Superfamilia: Veneroidea

Familia: Veneridae
Genus: Meretrix
Species: M. meretrix
Name

Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
References

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Meretrix. [accessed on 30 June 2020]

Meretrix is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. They appeared in the fossil record in the Cenomanian age.

Species

Species in the genus Meretrix include:[1]

Meretrix lamarckii[2]
Meretrix lusoria
Meretrix lyrata
†Meretrix chalcedonica, early Danian Lefipán Formation, Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Argentina[3]
†Meretrix dalli, Paleocene Martinez Formation of California
†Meretrix faba, Cenomanian Khatiyah Formation of the United Arab Emirates[4]
†Meretrix hikoshimensis, Oligocene Ashiya Group of Japan
†Meretrix hornii, Paleocene to Eocene California
†Meretrix indica, Paleocene Hangu Shales of Pakistan
†Meretrix negritosensis, Miocene Zorritos Formation of Peru
†Meretrix nuttalliopsis, Eocene Boca de Serpiente Formation of Trinidad and Tobago
†Meretrix persica, Miocene of Iran and India
†Meretrix shantii, Eocene Umm al-Rua'us Formation of Saudi Arabia
†Meretrix stantoni, Paleocene California
†Meretrix subimpressa, Eocene Trinidad and Tobago and Maryland
†Meretrix uvasana, Paleocene to Eocene California

References

Meretrix at Fossilworks.org
Meretrix lamarckii at GBIF
Goin et al., 2006, p.506

Ras al Khaimah, UAE at Fossilworks.org

Bibliography

Goin, Francisco; Rosendo Pascual; Marcelo F. Tejedor; Javier N. Gelfo; Michael O. Woodburne; Judd A. Case; Marcelo A. Reguero; Mariano Bond, and Guillermo M. López, Alberto L. Cione, Daniel Udrizar Sautheir, Lucía Balarino, Roberto A. Scassos, Francisco A. Medina and María C. Ubaldón. 2006. The earliest Tertiary therian mammal from South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26. 505–510. Accessed 2019-03-30.