Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Synonyms: Lithodomus Cuvier 1817, Paychoya Lutkevich and Lobanova 1956
Parent taxon: Mytilidae according to L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder 1987
See also Adegoke 1977, Bohm 1926, Bouchet et al. 2010, Glenn 1904, Hertlein and Grant 1972, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Lutkevich and Lobanova 1956, Mikkelsen 2006, Moore 1983, Morales-Ortega et al. 2016, Muromtseva and Guskov 1984, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Scholz 1984, Sepkoski 2002, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1982
Sister taxa: Adipicola, Amygdalum, Antetrichomya, Arcomytilus, Arcoperna, Arcuatula, Arcuatulinae, Arvella, Aulacomya, Bathymodiolinae, Bathymodiolus, Botulina, Botulopa, Botulopsis, Brachiodontes, Ciboticola, Coxesia, Cuneolus, Dacrydium, Eyrena, Falcimytilus, Fluviolanatus, Geukensia, Hilgardella, Inoperna, Lecompteus, Lioberus, Lithophaginae, Lycettia, Mauricia, Modiolaria, Modiolatus, Modiolinae, Modiolus, Musculista, Mytilaster, Mytilinae, Mytiloconcha, Phthonia, Promytilus, Rhomboidella, Stavelia, Trichomusculus, Trichomya, Volsella, Volsellina, Vulcanidas, Xenomytilinae, Xenostrobus
Subtaxa: Lithodomus australis Lithodomus beetzi Lithodomus brevis Lithodomus claibornensis Lithodomus hemirhabdota Lithodomus permianus Lithodomus portlandicus Lithodomus sublithophagus Lithophaga (Diberus) Lithophaga (Labis) Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) Lithophaga (Lithophaga) Lithophaga (Myoforceps) Lithophaga affinis Lithophaga antillarum Lithophaga aristata Lithophaga atavus Lithophaga bisulcata Lithophaga conchafodentis Lithophaga consobrina Lithophaga cordata Lithophaga elongata Lithophaga fabella Lithophaga gigantea Lithophaga gracilis Lithophaga inclusa Lithophaga inflexa Lithophaga lingua Lithophaga lithophaga Lithophaga lycetti Lithophaga maikaensis Lithophaga mucronata Lithophaga nasuta Lithophaga nigra Lithophaga nuda Lithophaga petricolides Lithophaga petricoloides Lithophaga praelonga Lithophaga subalveata Lithophaga subelliptica Lithophaga teres Lithophaga tubicola Lithophaga turneri Lithophaga yorkensis
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Bermuda (1), Cayman Islands (1), China (1), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (3), Greece (2), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (2), Jordan (2), Kenya (7), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (2), Portugal (3), Saudi Arabia (4), Tonga (3), United States (15: California, Florida, Hawaii), Virgin Islands (1), Yemen (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Egypt (1)
• Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (1), Haiti (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Peru (2), Portugal (1), Spain (2), United States (3: California, South Carolina), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (11), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Austria (7), Bulgaria (4), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (2), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Egypt (5), France (4), Grenada (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (8), Jamaica (2), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), Malta (5), Moldova (12), Morocco (7), Panama (2), Poland (7), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (8), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California, Florida, New Jersey)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (6: Florida)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (1), Costa Rica (1), Iran (1), Pakistan (2), the Russian Federation (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (2: Georgia)
• Eocene of Argentina (2), Bulgaria (1), China (2), France (2), Germany (1), Haiti (1), Italy (2), Mexico (1), Namibia (1), Panama (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (9: Alabama, California, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Nigeria (1), Poland (2), United States (6: Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Argentina (1), Cameroon (1), Denmark (1), France (7), Gabon (1), Germany (4), Italy (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (3), the Netherlands (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (9), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (52: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas), Yemen (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Chile (23), France (71), Germany (7), India (5), New Zealand (1), Poland (3), Portugal (21), Spain (10), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (11), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (20)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Germany (1), Iran (1)
• Permian of Australia (2), Greenland (1), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (17)
• Namurian of Spain (3)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma)
Total: 549 collections including 597 occurrences
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