Lithophaga
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Stone date ( Lithophaga lithophaga ) |
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Röding , 1798 |
Lithophaga is a genus of medium-sized mussels from the family of mussels (Mytilidae). You drill in hard, calcareous substrates.
features
The cases are usually elongated and narrow, with more or less parallel or slightly backward converging dorsal and ventral edges. The edges of the case are smooth. The vertebra sits near the front end. The cases are about 3 to 7 cm long. The surface is largely smooth with more or less distinct growth stripes, or with vertical stripes. The external ligament is sunk deeply. The color varies from light brown to dark brown, almost black. The lock edge is generally smooth.
Geographical distribution and way of life
The species of the genus occur worldwide in warmer seas. With the help of a pallial gland secretion, the animals drill into stone or live or dead corals, hence the scientific name Lithophaga , which means "stone eater".
Taxonomy and systematics
The taxon Lithophaga was established by Peter Friedrich Röding as early as 1798 . Type species is Mytilus lithophaga Linné, 1758.
- Genus Lithophaga Röding, 1798
- Lithophaga alpina Kleemann , 1980
- Lithophaga aristata ( Dillwyn , 1817)
- Lithophaga attenuata ( Deshayes , 1836)
- Lithophaga bisulcata ( d'Orbigny , 1842)
- Lithophaga calyculata Carpenter , 1857
- Lithophaga canalifera ( Hanley , 1843)
- Lithophaga canalifera ( Hanley , 1843)
- Lithophaga corrugata ( Philippi , 1846)
- Lithophaga cylindrica ( Krauss , 1848)
- Lithophaga dahabensis Kleemann , 2008
- † Lithophaga dalli ( Ihering , 1907) (Lower to Middle Miocene)
- Lithophaga divaricalx Iredale , 1939
- Lithophaga exilis ( Feruglio , 1935) ( Danium )
- Lithophaga fasciola Dall , Bartsch & Rehder
- Lithophaga hanleyana ( Reeve , 1857)
- Lithophaga hastasia Olsson , 1961
- Lithophaga laevigata ( Quoy & Gaimard , 1835)
- Lithophaga lepteces Wang , 1997
- Lithophaga lessepsiana ( Vaillant , 1865)
- Stone date ( Lithophaga lithophaga ( Linné , 1758))
- Lithophaga lithura Pilsbry , 1905
- Lithophaga malaccana ( Reeve , 1857)
- Lithophaga mucronata ( Philippi , 1846)
- Lithophaga nasuta ( Philippi , 1846)
- Lithophaga nigra ( d'Orbigny , 1842)
- Lithophaga obesa ( Philippi , 1847)
- Lithophaga paraplumula Kleemann & Maestrati , 2012
- Lithophaga parapurpurea Kleemann , 2008
- Lithophaga peruviana ( d'Orbigny , 1846)
- Lithophaga plumula ( Hanley , 1843)
- † Lithophaga platensis ( Philippi , 1893) (Upper Miocene)
- Lithophaga pulchra Jousseaume , 1919
- Lithophaga punctata ( Kleemann & Hoeksema , 2002)
- Lithophaga purpurea Kleemann , 1980
- Lithophaga rogersi S. S. Berry , 1957
- Lithophaga simplex Iredale , 1939
- Leiosolenus spatiosus ( Carpenter , 1857)
- Lithophaga straminea ( Reeve , 1857)
- Lithophaga subattenuata Kleemann & Maestrati , 2012
- Lithophaga teres ( Philippi , 1846)
supporting documents
literature
- Lithophaga in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
- Kleemann, KH, 1994. Mytilid bivalve Lithophaga in Upper Triassic coral Pamiroseris from Zlambach Beds compared with Cretaceous Lithophaga alpina . Facies 30, 151-154.
- Santiago Genta Iturrería: Revisión de la Familia Mytlidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) en el Cenozoico de Patagonia: sistemática, paleoecología y paleobiogeografía . 244 p., Dissertation Universidad Nacional de la Plata Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, La Plata 2014. PDF
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Friedrich Röding: Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, MD pd per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Pp. 1-199. Hamburg, Trapp 1798 Online at Göttingen Digitization Center (p. 156).