Species Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) obesus (Philippi, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Modiola (Lithophagus) obesa Philippi, A.R. 1847. Testaceorum novorum centuria. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1847: 71-77, 84-96, 113-127 [118].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM C60407, Low Isles, Queensland.
• Lithophaga obesa suspecta 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 [422, pl. 6, fig. 30].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.60407, Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef, Qld, Australia [16°22‘58.8‘S 145°34‘1.2‘E].
• Lithophaga hawaia Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [56-57, pl. 11, figs 9-10].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 337459, entrance to harbour, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
• Lithophaga yacobi Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919.

 

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.

 

Generic Combinations

• Lithophaga obesa (Philippi, 1847). —
  Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1857. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 2(Parts XXIX-XXXII) pp. 413-540, pls 113-128. [519]
• Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) obesus (Philippi, 1847).
• Lithodomus obesus (Philippi, 1847). —
  Reeve, L.A. 1858. Monograph of the genus Lithodomus. pls 1, 5 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 10. [sp. 6, pl. 1, fig. 6]
• Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) obesus (Philippi, 1847). —
  Lamy, E. 1937. Révision des Mytilidae vivantes du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 81: 5-71, 99-132, 169-197 [118-119]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth: intertidal, subtidal to 10m; habit: boring, infaunal, usually burrows in coral rock; habitat: coral reef, in boulders on reef front and reef slope at Low Isles, Queensland, intertial flats; substrate: coral, boulders.

 

General References

Barthel, K.W. 1981. Lithophaga obesa (Philippi) reef-dwelling and cementing Pelecypod - a survey of its boring. Proceedings of the 4th International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila 2: 649-659 (distrbution, ecology, synonymy)

Bernard, F.R., Cai, Y.Y. & Morton, B. 1993. Catalogue of the Living Marine Bivalve Molluscs of China. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press 121 pp. [36]

Chinh, N. 2001. Mytilidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) recorded in Vietnam. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 25(2): 411-417 [412]

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [152] (biology and ecology)

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.

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 [422, pl. 6, fig. 30]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [14]

Kleemann, K.H. 1984. Lithophaga from dead coral from the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Molluscan Studies 50: 192-230 [218] (synonymy, distribution, type data)

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [94, fig. 222]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [54, pl. 7]

Otter, G.W. 1937. Rock destroying organisms in relation to coral reefs. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 1: 323-352 [339, pl. 1, fig. 2]

Wilson, B.R. 1979. A revision of Queensland lithophagine mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae: Lithophaginae). Records of the Australian Museum 32: 435-489 [474-476, fig. 17, 1, text fig. 15] (as Lithophaga obesa (Philippi, 1847))

Zhenrui, W. & Zhongyan, Q. 1984. Study on Chinese species of the family Mytilidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Studia Marina Sinica 22: 198-242 [235] (Secondary source; synonymy; distribution; placed in subgenus Diberus)

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [294] (Golden Date Mussel)

 

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
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