Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Alternative combinations: Lithodomus niger, Lithophaga (Lithophaga) nigra
Belongs to Lithophaga according to G. Rosenberg 2005
See also Cooke 1919, De Buisonjé 1974, Richards et al. 1969 and Woodring 1982
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 lithophaga, Lithophaga lycetti, Lithophaga maikaensis, Lithophaga mucronata, Lithophaga nasuta, Lithophaga nuda, Lithophaga petricolides, Lithophaga petricoloides, Lithophaga praelonga, Lithophaga subalveata, Lithophaga subelliptica, Lithophaga teres, Lithophaga tubicola, Lithophaga turneri, Lithophaga yorkensis, Lithodomus hemirhabdota, Lithodomus permianus, Lithodomus claibornensis, Lithodomus beetzi, Lithodomus portlandicus, Lithodomus sublithophagus, Lithodomus australis, Lithodomus brevis
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bermuda (1 collection), Haiti (1), Jamaica (1), United States (4: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Netherlands Antilles (1)
• Miocene of Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Eocene of Panama (1)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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