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Ruditapes sp.

genus Ruditapes Chiamenti, 1900

• Modern species: Pliocene - Present (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Veneridae

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Kagawa
• Miocene: Ibaraki, Gifu, Kyoto, Kagawa
• Pliocene: Niigata
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa, Shimane
• Quaternary: Hiroshima
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Oita
• Holocene: Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Hiroshima
• Investigation in progress: Kyoto

• Subtaxa
• R. miyamurensis
• R. philippinarum, Japanese littleneck, Manila clam