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Lithophaga lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865) 
AphiaID: 208434

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Lithophaga (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lithophaga Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Leiosolenus lessepsianus (Vaillant, 1865)
Lithodomus lessepsianus Vaillant, 1865 (original combination)
Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865)
Sources  basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kleemann K. & Maestrati P. (2012) Pacific Lithophaga (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from recent French expeditions with the description of two new species. Bollettino Malacologico 48: 73-102. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Distribution Red Sea [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208434
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-19 09:36:22Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2011-12-16 01:53:09Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2013-01-10 09:18:51Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lithophaga lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208434 on 2013-05-24
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