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Lioberus Dall 1898

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Description

Lioberus Dall, 1898

Type species. Modiola castanea Say, 1822, by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Beaks near anterior end, smooth or with obsolete radial sculpture, edentulous, periostracum smooth (Soot-Ryen 1969)

Lioberus castanea (Say, 1822)

Modiola castanea Say, 1822: 266 (fide Thiele 1934: 800); Lamy 1937: (49)

Lithophaga (Lioberus) castanea (Say) - Thiele 1934: (800); Kleemann 1983: (5) Modiolaria (Lioberus) castanea Say - Lamy 1937: 49 –50

Botula castanea (Say) – Perry 1940: 47, pl. 7, fig. 41; Clapp & Kenk 1963: (777), = Modiolaria Lioberus castaneus Say - Poirier 1954: (150, formerly known as Botula castanea Say); Warmke & Abbott 1961: 163, pl. 31h; Humfrey 1975: 216

Geographic distribution: SW coast of Florida, West Indies

Remarks. Poirier (1954) gives no reference, but probably refers to Perry (1940).

Other

Published as part of Kleemann, Karl, 2007, Catalogue and bibliography of Recent and fossil Botula (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 1508 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177199

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Mytilidae
Genus
Lioberus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mytiloida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Dall
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lioberus Dall, 1898 sec. Kleemann, 2007

References

  • Dall, W. H. (1898) Contribution to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida. IV. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science Philadelphia, 3, 571 - 947.
  • Soot-Ryen, T. (1969) Superfamily Mytilacea Rafinesquae, 1815. In: Moore, R. C. (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N 1, Mollusca 6, Bivalvia, The Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, N 271 - N 280.
  • Thiele, J. (1934) Handbuch der Sytematischen Weichtierkunde, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, 2 (3), 779 - 1022, Jena.
  • Lamy, E. (1937) Revision des Mytilidae vivants du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie, 81, 99 - 132, 169 - 197.
  • Kleemann, K. H. (1983) Catalogue of recent and fossil Lithophaga (Bivalvia). The Journal of Molluscan Studies, Supplement 12, 1 - 46.
  • Perry, L. M. (1940) Marine shells of the southwest coast of Florida. Bulletin of American Paleontologists, 26 1 - 260.
  • Clapp, W. F. & Kenk, R. (1963) Marine Borers. An annotated Bibliography, Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy ACR 74, Washington, D. C., 1136 pp.
  • Poirier, H. (1954) An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation and gender of their names, New York, 215 pp.
  • Warmke, G. L. & Abbott, R. T. (1961) Caribbean Seashells, Livingston Publications, Narbeth, Pennsylvania, 346 pp., 44 pls.
  • Humfrey, M. (1975) A guide to the marine mollusks of the Caribbean. Collins, London, 351 pp., 32 pls.