Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae

Alternative combination: Cytherea gibbosula

Full reference: G.P. Deshayes. 1857. Description des Animaux sans Vertébres découverts dans le Bassin des Paris 1(2):81-392

Belongs to Tivelina according to J. Le Renard and J.-M. Pacaud 1995

Sister taxa: Tivelina analoga, Tivelina baudoni, Tivelina capsuloides, Tivelina coislinensis, Tivelina deltoidea, Tivelina dixoni, Tivelina nuculoides, Tivelina parameces, Tivelina rustica, Tivelina siliqua, Tivelina sphenarium, Tivelina subquadrangularis, Tivelina tellinaria, Tivelina vincentiana

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder