| Myrtea Temporal range: | |
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| Myrtea catonii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Lucinida |
| Family: | Lucinidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrteinae |
| Genus: | Myrtea W. Turton, 1822 |
| Type species | |
| Venus spinifera Montagu, 1803 | |
| Synonyms [1] [2] [3] | |
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Myrtea is a genus of bivalves, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Lucinidae. [1]
Members of the genus have an oval-trangulate, nearly equilateral shell. The hinge of one valve has a single tooth and two lateral teeth, with two teeth on the opposing valve with lateral teeth obscured. [4]
Elliptotellina was first described by William Turton in 1822. [4]
The genus has a global distribution, [2] with fossils of the Myrtea dating back to the Cretaceous period. [3]
Species within the genus Myrtea include: [1]
