Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytiloida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Mytilidae

Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Lithophagus orthographic variant
Dactylus Mörch, 1861 synonym
Leiosolenus Carpenter, 1857 synonym; alternate representation
Lithodomus Cuvier, 1816 synonym
Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) Carpenter, 1856 synonym; alternate representation
Lithophaga (Myoforceps) P. Fischer, 1886 synonym
Lithophagus synonym
Myoforceps P. Fischer, 1886 synonym

Children

Lithophaga aristata (Dillwyn, 1817)
Lithophaga lithophaga (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

additional source

Kleeman K.H. (1983) Catalogue of recent and fossil Lithophaga (Bivalvia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, supplement 12: 1-46.

redescription

Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Lithophaga Röding, 1798. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138220

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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Last modified

2012-06-22 by Philippe Bouchet

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