Leptomya subrostrata (Issel, 1869)

Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice & Wood, Harriet, 2004, Annotated checklist of the marine Bivalvia of Rodrigues, Journal of Natural History 38 (23), pp. 3229-3272 : 3259

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930410001695097

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5253822

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC8797-6F68-FFDE-FE3C-FBBFFCA14E36

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Felipe

scientific name

Leptomya subrostrata (Issel, 1869)
status

 

Leptomya subrostrata (Issel, 1869) View in CoL

Habitat (inferred). Burrowing in silty sand, sublittoral.

Distribution. Valves are not uncommon throughout the lagoon.

Remarks. This species is not in literature records from the Mascarenes but may be the same as that identified as L. psittacus (Hanley, 1879) from South Africa ( Barnard, 1964) and Mauritius ( Viader, 1937).

Range. Western Indian Ocean , Arabian Sea, Red Sea [M/S].

Figured specimen. 23.9 mm, NMW.Z.1999.073.00035.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Cardiida

Family

Semelidae

Genus

Leptomya

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