Species Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lithodomus levigatus Quoy, J.M.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1835. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu 954 pp., atlas, 107 pls. [p.464-465, pl.78, f.17,18].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) Timor; Timor
  Comment: neither the description nor the figures fit the types.
• Lithodomus laevigatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835 [emendation].

 

Generic Combinations

• Lithophaga (Leiosolenus) laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835).
• Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Leiosolenus levigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) [spelling used in online WORMS database].

 

Introduction

Huber (2010) does not recognised Leiosolenus (Leiosolenus) laevigatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835) as occurring in Australian waters. However, given that there is much Australian literature recording this species from Australia it is maintained here untl further investigation.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Habit: boring, infaunal, infests only live corals, generally massive corals; for example porites (Great Barrier Reef, Wilson 1985).

 

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. 1980. Boring bivalves and their host corals from the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Molluscan Studies 46: 13-54 [25] (synonymy, description, distribution, ecology, type data)

Wilson, B.R. 1985. Sibling species of Leiosolenus (Bivalvia, Mytilidae, Lithophaginae) boring in living corals in the Indo-West Pacific Region. Proceedings of the 5th International Coral Reef Congress 5: 183-190 [184] (ecology)

 

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	23-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
05-Sep-2012		05-Sep-2012	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
22-Sep-2010		22-Sep-2010	MOVED
		11-Aug-2010	MODIFIED