Lithophaga

Lithophaga
Unum testae Lithophagae truncatae valve
Taxinomia
Regnum:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Classis:	Bivalvia
Subclassis:	Pteriomorphia
Ordo:	Mytiloida
Familia:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Lithophaga Röding, 1798
Species
Vide commentarium.

Lithophaga (ex verbis Graecis, 'quod saxum edat') est genus marinorum mediae magnitudinis molluscorum bivalvium familiae Mytilidarum.

Testae specierum huius generis sunt circa 3–7 cm longae, angustae, lateribus paene parallelis, colore fusco. Animalia saxum vel scopulum curalii perforare solent, secretionibus glandis pallialis adiuventibus, ergo nomen systematicum, Lithophaga. Foramina ab eis effecta, quia sunt claviformia, ichnofossile ferunt nomen gastrochaenolites.

Species

Species intra genus sunt:

• Lithophaga antillarum (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Lithophaga aristata (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Lithophaga attenuata (Deshayes, 1836)
• Lithophaga balanas Dall
• Lithophaga balanus Dall
• Lithophaga bisulcata (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Lithophaga cardigera
• Lithophaga cavernosa
• Lithophaga cinnamomeus
• Lithophaga dactylus
• Lithophaga fasciola Dall, Bartsch, & Rehder
• Lithophaga gracilis Philippi
• Lithophaga hawaia Dall, Bartsch, & Rehder
• Lithophaga ilabis (Deshayes)
• Lithophaga lithophaga (Linnaeus)
• Lithophaga nigra (d'Orbigny, 1842)
• Lithophaga plumula (Hanley, 1844)
• Lithophaga punctata (Kleemann & Hoeksema, 2002)
• Lithophaga rogersi S. S. Berry, 1957
• Lithophaga truncata (Gray, 1843)
• Lithophaga simplex

Bibliographia

• "ITIS" (Index Integer Taxinomiae)
• Kleemann, K. H. 1994. "Mytilid bivalve Lithophaga in Upper Triassic coral Pamiroseris from Zlambach Beds compared with Cretaceous Lithophaga alpina." Facies 30: 151-154.

Vide Lithophaga apud Vicispecies.

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