OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Bivalvia Mytiloida Mytilidae 

Lithophaga (Lithophaga) townsendi (Melvill & Standen, 1906)

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Lithodomus townsendi Mevill & Standen, 1906

Distribution

  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificCentral and East Indian OceanIndo-ArabiaOman
  OBIS RegionsTropical Indo-West PacificCentral and East Indian OceanIndo-ArabiaPersian Gulf (=Arabian Gulf)

Keywords

habitat: rocks [ rocky ground ]

References

 Kleemann, K.H. 1983. p.24 [ synonymy; distribution; type data; ecology ]  Secondary source

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Loboconcha
          Bivalvia
            Pteriomorphia
              Mytiloida
                Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815
                  Lithophaga Röding, 1798
                    Lithophaga (Lithophaga) Röding, 1798
                      Lithophaga (Lithophaga) townsendi (Melvill & Standen, 1906)

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=61185) created by Peter Ulrik Middelfart on 2001-12-20. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2002-12-12.