Etheria elliptica
Appearance
Etheria elliptica | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Unionida |
Family: | Etheriidae |
Genus: | Etheria Lamarck, 1807 |
Species: | E. elliptica
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Binomial name | |
Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807
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Etheria is a genus of freshwater oysters in the Etheriidae family of mollusk bivalves, and a part of the Unionida order.[1] The genus includes a single species, Etheria elliptica, that is found throughout Africa and Madagascar.[2]
Etheria elliptica was first described by Lamarck in 1807, and lives in river basins along the Nile, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria, and in Chad, Zaire, Niger, Senegal, and Angola.[3]
Etheria are found as fossils at paleontological sites in Africa, including at Lake Turkana 3-5 million years ago.[4] It first appears in the Miocene in northeast Zaire.[3]
References
- ^ Huber, Markus (2010). Compendium of Bivalves. A Full-color Guide to 3'300 of the World's Marine Bivalves. A Status on Bivalvia after 250 Years of Research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. pp. 901 pp. + CD. ISBN 978-3-939767-28-2.
- ^ "Freshwater Mussels of Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands". The Mussel Project. Daniel Graf and Kevin Cummings. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ^ a b Harper, Elizabeth; Taylor, David; Crame, Alistair (2000). The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia. Geological Society of London.
- ^ Leakey, Meave; Harris, John; Feibel, Craig; Stewart, Kathlyn; Cerling, Thure; Werdelin, Lars (2003). Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Early Pliocene Site of Kanapoi, Northern Kenya.