African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

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Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Lithophaga lithophaga

AphiaID

138220 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138220)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Lithophaginae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857

Orig. name

Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Lithodomus Cuvier, 1816 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Lithophagus [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)

Direct children (27)

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Species Lithophaga antillarum (A. d'Orbigny, 1853)
Species Lithophaga caperata (R. A. Philippi, 1849)
Species Lithophaga cylindrica (Krauss, 1848)
Species Lithophaga lithophaga (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Lithophaga nigra (A. d'Orbigny, 1853)
Species Lithophaga robusta Jousseaume, 1919
Species Lithophaga teres (R. A. Philippi, 1846)
Species Lithophaga zitteliana Dunker, 1882
Subgenus Lithophaga (Diberus) Dall, 1898 accepted as Leiosolenus (Diberus) Dall, 1898 represented as Leiosolenus P. P. Carpenter, 1857
Subgenus Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) P. P. Carpenter, 1856 accepted as Leiosolenus P. P. Carpenter, 1857
Subgenus Lithophaga (Myoforceps) P. Fischer, 1886 accepted as Leiosolenus (Myoforceps) P. Fischer, 1886 represented as Leiosolenus P. P. Carpenter, 1857
Species Lithophaga aristata (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Leiosolenus aristatus (Dillwyn, 1817)
Species Lithophaga barnardi Boshoff, 1965 accepted as Leiosolenus lima (Jousseaume, 1919)
Species Lithophaga calcifer Iredale, 1939 accepted as Leiosolenus malaccanus (Reeve, 1857)
Species Lithophaga corrugata (R. A. Philippi, 1846) accepted as Lithophaga antillarum (A. d'Orbigny, 1853) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Lithophaga cumingiana (Reeve, 1858) accepted as Leiosolenus peruvianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
Species Lithophaga gracilis (R. A. Philippi, 1847) accepted as Lithophaga teres (R. A. Philippi, 1846)
Species Lithophaga hanleyana (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Leiosolenus hanleyanus (Reeve, 1857)
Species Lithophaga laevigata (Kleemann, 1980) accepted as Leiosolenus levigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) (see nomenclature note under Lithodomus laevigatus)
Species Lithophaga lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865) accepted as Leiosolenus lessepsianus (Vaillant, 1865)
Species Lithophaga lima (Jousseaume, 1919) accepted as Leiosolenus lima (Jousseaume, 1919) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lithophaga malaccana (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Leiosolenus malaccanus (Reeve, 1857)
Species Lithophaga mucronata (R. A. Philippi, 1846) accepted as Leiosolenus mucronatus (R. A. Philippi, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lithophaga nasuta (R. A. Philippi, 1846) accepted as Leiosolenus nasutus (R. A. Philippi, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lithophaga obesa (R. A. Philippi, 1847) accepted as Leiosolenus obesus (R. A. Philippi, 1847) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lithophaga peruviana (A. d'Orbigny, 1846) accepted as Leiosolenus peruvianus (A. d'Orbigny, 1846)
Species Lithophaga straminea (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Lithophaga caperata (R. A. Philippi, 1849)

Environment

marine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 156 [details]

(of Lithophagus [sic]) Megerle von Mühlfeld, J. C. (1811). Entwurf eines neuen Systems der Schaltiergehäuse. Magazin für die neuesten Entdecklungen in der gesammten Naturkunde von der Gesellschaft Naturforschaft Freunde zu Berlin. 5(1): 38-72, pl. 3., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=JicVAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 69 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lithophaga Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138220 on 2024-04-28

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Lithophaga Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138220 on 2024-04-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-22 06:50:38Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-12-03 07:25:42Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-06-22 14:07:56Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-01-29 20:24:10Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2017-06-18 14:12:27Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2019-08-11 22:27:57Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 156 [details]

original description (of Lithodomus Cuvier, 1816) Cuvier G. (1816 ["1817"]). Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. [Work generally dated 1817; published before 2 December 1816 according to Roux, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8(1): 31] Tome 1, 540 pp.; Tome 2, 528 pp.; Tome 3, 653 pp.; Tome 4, 255 pp., 15 pl. Deterville, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18030
page(s): Tome 2 p. 471 [details]

original description (of Lithophagus [sic]) Megerle von Mühlfeld, J. C. (1811). Entwurf eines neuen Systems der Schaltiergehäuse. Magazin für die neuesten Entdecklungen in der gesammten Naturkunde von der Gesellschaft Naturforschaft Freunde zu Berlin. 5(1): 38-72, pl. 3., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=JicVAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 69 [details]

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

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. [details]