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Bivalvia Mytiloida Mytilidae 

Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Lithophaga Röding, 1798
   Lithophagus Megerle, 1811
   Lithodomus Cuvier, 1817
   Lithodoma de Blainville, 1823
   Lithotomus Nitzsch, 1825

Included taxa

   Lithophaga (Unplaced)
   Lithophaga (Lithophaga) Röding, 1798
   Lithophaga (Stumpiella) laevigata (QUOY & GAIMARD, 1835)
   Lithophaga (Diberus) canalifera (HANLEY, 1844-a)
   Lithophaga (Myapalmula) nasuta (PHILIPPI, 1846 in 1842-51)
   Lithophaga (Lithophaga) teres (PHILIPPI, 1846 in 1842-51)
   Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) obesa (PHILIPPI, 1847-c)
   Lithophaga cylindrica (Krauss, 1848)
   Lithophaga (Diberus) malaccana (REEVE, 1857)
   Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) Carpenter, 1857
   Lithophaga (Lithophaga) straminea (REEVE, 1857 in 1843-65)
   Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) curta (LISCHKE, 1874)
   Lithophaga (Lithophaga) zitteliana DUNKER, 1883 in 1880-83
   Lithophaga (Diberus) Dall, 1898
   Lithophaga (Stumpiella) lithura PILSBRY, 1905
   Lithophaga (Exodiberus) lima (LAMY, 1919-b)
   Lithophaga (Stumpiella) Soot-Ryen, 1955
   Lithophaga (Labis) erimitica KURODA & HABE in KURODA et al., 1971

Common Name

Date or Boring mussel p.1096      Turner Dixon, R. 1965.  

Distribution

  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Gulf of Carp.
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: N coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NW coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NE coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Great Australian Bight
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: S Gulfs coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: New South Wales
  ABRS Regions: Australia: Northern Territory
  ABRS Regions: Australia: Queensland
  ABRS Regions: Australia: Western Australia
  OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): New South Wales
  OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): Western Australia
  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Northern Territory
  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Queensland
  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Western Australia
  ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: SW coast
  ABRS Regions: Australia: South Australia
  OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: Australia (S): South Australia

References

 Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. p.14 General reference
 Kay, E.A. 1979. p.508 Biology and ecology
 Moore, R.C. 1969. p.N276 General reference
 Oliver, P.G. 1992. p.54 [ member of subfamily Lithophaginae ]  Alternate taxonomic arrangement

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Loboconcha
          Bivalvia
            Pteriomorphia
              Mytiloida
                Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815
                  Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=19536) created by Playpus Export Program on 2000-11-09. Record last updated by bouchet genera on 2002-07-16.