Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Alternative combination: Lithodomus praelongus
Belongs to Lithophaga according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957
See also Choffat 1888
Sister taxa: Lithophaga (Diberus), Lithophaga (Labis), Lithophaga (Leiosolenus), Lithophaga (Lithophaga), Lithophaga (Myoforceps), Lithophaga (Stumpiella), Lithophaga affinis, Lithophaga antillarum, Lithophaga aristata, Lithophaga atavus, Lithophaga bisulcata, Lithophaga carolinensis, 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 subalveata, Lithophaga subelliptica, Lithophaga teres, Lithophaga tubicola, Lithophaga turneri, Lithophaga yorkensis, Lithodomus hemirhabdota, Lithodomus australis, Lithodomus beetzi, Lithodomus brevis, Lithodomus permianus, Lithodomus claibornensis, Lithodomus portlandicus, Lithodomus sublithophagus
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Dombe-Grande (couches à Pholadomya pleuromyaeformis) (Cretaceous of Angola)
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