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Lithophaga Röding, 1798

Lithophaga lithophaga

AphiaID

138220 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138220)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Lithophaginae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857

Original name

Lithophaga Röding, 1798

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Subgenus Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) P. P. Carpenter, 1856 accepted as Leiosolenus P. P. Carpenter, 1857 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Species Lithophaga aristata (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Leiosolenus aristatus (Dillwyn, 1817)
Species Lithophaga hanleyana (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Leiosolenus hanleyanus (Reeve, 1857)

Environment

marine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 156 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Lithophaga Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138220 on 2026-07-17

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Lithophaga Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138220 on 2026-07-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-22 06:50:38Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-12-03 07:25:42Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2012-06-22 14:07:56Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2016-01-29 20:24:10Z

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Sartori, André F.

2017-06-18 14:12:27Z

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Gofas, Serge

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

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Gofas, Serge

2019-08-11 22:27:57Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 156 [details]

additional source Kleeman K.H. (1983) Catalogue of recent and fossil <i>Lithophaga</i> (Bivalvia). <i>Journal of Molluscan Studies</i>, supplement 12: 1-46. [details]

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]