NMITA:
Neogene Marine
Biota of Tropical
America
NMITA:
Neogene Marine
Biota of Tropical
America
Morphologic Description: Carapace like that of Cytherura, RV clearly overhanging LV along dorsal margin; ornament of pits or coarse reticulations; eye tubercles present. Adductor muscle scars four in vertical row, one anterior to them; zone of concrescence board anteriorly, narrow backward, triangular anteromarginal niche (if developed), niche in posteroventral section; marginal pore canals simple, few, anterior ones grouped in three bundles; RV hinge with two terminal tooth plates and intervening furrow. Males longer than females. [Cythere celllulosa Norman 1865] (Treatise, Q293, figs. 219:3; 220:6).
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