Lithophaga malaccana, Reeve, 1855

Lam, Katherine, Morton, Brian & Leung, K. F., 2008, Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong, Journal of Natural History 42 (9 - 12), pp. 927-952 : 932

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701862674

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A2A77F-6B56-FF95-352C-81D1FD1689ED

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scientific name

Lithophaga malaccana
status

 

Lithophaga malaccana View in CoL (Reeve, 1857, pl. 4, sp. 20)

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Description

Shell elongate, inflated, length to 40 mm, beaks nearly terminal anteriorly, anterior broadly rounded, posterior blunt to tapered, calcareous encrustations extend beyond the posterior shell margin.

Type locality

Malacca Straits, Indonesia.

Distribution

Indian Ocean. Indo-Pacific, Java, South China Sea, Xisha Islands, Hainan, Japan, eastern waters of Hong Kong, boring into dead and living corals ( Scott 2003). Submarine caves, boring into empty oyster shells.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Mytilida

Family

Mytilidae

Genus

Lithophaga

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