Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae

Alternative combination: Astarte guthriensis

Full reference: R. B. Newton. 1906. Notice of some fossils from Singapore discovered by John B. Scrivenor, FGS, geologist to the Federated Malay States. Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade V 3:487-496

Belongs to Astartella according to M. E. Clapham 2011

Sister taxa: Astartella adenticulata, Astartella ambiensis, Astartella aueri, Astartella cavernata, Astartella clinata, Astartella compacta, Astartella concentrica, Astartella consimilis, Astartella doulingensis, Astartella gemmifera, Astartella guangxingensis, Astartella huangnijiangensis, Astartella meridionalis, Astartella minuta, Astartella multicostata, Astartella nasuta, Astartella obliqua, Astartella omolonica, Astartella permocarbonica, Astartella pindensis, Astartella progenetrix, Astartella pusilla, Astartella raricostata, Astartella simulans, Astartella subquadrata, Astartella symmetrica, Astartella toyomensis, Astartella tunstallensis, Astartella vallisneriana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mount Guthrie, Tanjong Pagar, which is in an Artinskian/Roadian marine mudstone in Singapore