Subfamily LITHOPHAGINAE H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 (1854)

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• Lithophaginae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 (1854) [Lithophaginae is in prevailing usage, and is conserved under Art. 40.2 of the ICZN with the priority of Lithodominae J. Gray, 1854. Lithophaginae is thus maintained and retains its own author and date (the first date cited), but takes the priority of the replaced name; the date cited in parentheses, here alluding to Lithodominae Gray, 1854; see Bieler et al. (2010: 51, 117)].
• Lithodominae Gray, 1854.
• Adulinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979.
• Botulinae Scarlato & Starobogatov, 1979.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Mytilidae: Lithophaga (Lithophaga) antillarum (d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1842) [=Lithodomus antillarum d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1842; currently accepted as Lithophaga corrugata (Philippi, 1846)] — Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (restricted to the Western Atlantic:Caribbean, Central America; Australian records referred to Lithophaga (Lithophaga) caperata (Philippi, 1849))

Mytilidae: Lithophaga (Lithophaga) nigra (d'Orbigny in Sagra, 1842) [=Lithodomus niger d'Orbigny, A.D. 1842] — Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (restricted to the Caribbean; Australian records referred to Lithophaga (Lithophaga) teres (Philippi 1846))

Mytilidae: Lithophaga lessepsiana (Vaillant, 1865) [=Lithodomus lessepsianus Vaillant, L. 1865; currently accepted as Leiosolenus lessepsianus (Vaillant, 1865)] — Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (not an Australian species; Australian records referred to Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) simplex (Iredale 1939))

General References

Bieler, R., Carter, J.G. & Coan, E.V. 2010. Classiication of Bivalve Families. pp. 113-133 in Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. Nomenclator of Bivalve Families; with a classiication of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Kleemann, K. 2007. Catalogue and bibliography of Recent and fossil Botula (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Zootaxa 1508: 1-48 [3]

Morton, B. & Scott, P.J.B. 1980. Morphological and functional specializations of the shell, musculature and pallial glands in the Lithophaginae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of Zoology, London 192: 179-203

Yonge, C.M. 1955. Adaptation to rock boring in Botula and Lithophaga with a discussion on the evolution of this habit. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 96(3): 383-410

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