Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae

Alternative combination: Lithodomus elongata

Full reference: F. Kossmat. 1893. Über einige Kreideversteinerungen vom Gabun. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 102:575-590

Belongs to Lithophaga according to E. Dartevelle and S. Freneix 1957

See also Kossmat 1893

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 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, Lithodomus claibornensis, Lithodomus permianus, Lithodomus brevis, Lithodomus hemirhabdota, Lithodomus beetzi, Lithodomus portlandicus, Lithodomus sublithophagus, Lithodomus australis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gabun, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in Gabon

Distribution: found only at Gabun

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