Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Alternative combinations: Lithophagus lithophagus, Mytilus lithophaga
Synonym: Lithodomus avitensis Mayer 1867
Belongs to Lithophaga according to L. R. Cox 1936
See also Callapez and Ferreira Soares 2000
Sister taxa: 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 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, Lithodomus australis, Lithodomus claibornensis, Lithodomus sublithophagus, Lithodomus hemirhabdota, Lithodomus portlandicus, Lithodomus permianus, Lithodomus beetzi, Lithodomus brevis
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (3 collections), Greece (1)
• Pliocene of Iran (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (11), Bulgaria (4), Cyprus (1), France (2), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (3), Malta (1), Moldova (10), Morocco (6), Poland (6), Romania (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 54 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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