Species Leiosolenus (Diberus) divaricalx (Iredale, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lithophaga divaricalx Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [417, 418, 420, pl. 6, fig. 23].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60401, Great Barrier Reef, Low Islands, Queensland, Australia [16°22‘58.8‘S, 145°34‘1.2‘E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Leiosolenus (Diberus) divaricalx (Iredale, 1939).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Lithophaga (Lithophaga) divaricalx Iredale, 1939.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth: subtidal; feeding mode: hunting; habit: boring, infaunal; habitat: coral reef; substrate: rocks.

 

General References

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.H. 1983. Catalogue of recent and fossil Lithophaga (Bivalvia). Journal of Molluscan Studies (Supplement) 12: 1-46 [9] (remarks species as possible synonym of L. plumula)

Kleemann, K.H. 1984. Lithophaga from dead coral from the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Molluscan Studies 50: 192-230 [193] (does not support validity of name, but does not synonymise with L. plumula)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [94, fig. 221]

Wilson, B.R. 1979. A revision of Queensland lithophagine mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae: Lithophaginae). Records of the Australian Museum 32: 435-489 [473-474] (as Lithophaga divaricalx Iredale, 1939)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
05-Sep-2012		05-Sep-2012	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
27-May-2013		13-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		11-Aug-2010	MODIFIED