Botula
Creators: name: Kleemann, Karl
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Mytiloida
Mytilidae
Botula

description: Botula references in Lithophaga
Lithophaga (?) avellana (Orbigny, 1845)
Lithodomus avellana Orbigny, 1845, vol. 3: 291–292, (297), pl. 344, figs. 13–15, type: figured, size: 18-11.5-11.7 mm, type locality: Orgon (Vaucluse), age: Lower Neocomian; Archiac 1847: (307); Orbigny 1850: 107; Morris 1854: (207); Gabb 1861a: (138); Pictet & Campiche 1864 –67: 520, (524, 549), pl. 137, figs. 2a, b, 3, 4a–c; Loriol in Pictet 1866: 37–38, Couche B; Stoliczka 1871: (375, 376); Böhm 1884: 27; Mayer-Eymar 1887: (24); Loriol 1888: (309); Rollier 1914: (334); Favre & Richard 1927: 26, pl. 3, figs. 32–34; Kleemann 1981: (52, 55); Kleemann 1983: (3, 28, 30)
Lithophagus avellana, - Pictet 1855, vol. 3: (584); Böhm 1883: 586, (664, 674, 678), pl. 66, figs. 6–10; Böhm 1884: (27)
Lithodomus cf. avellana Orbigny - Toula 1882: (43)
Lithodomus (Botula) avellana Orbigny - Gillet 1924: (26), pl. 1, fig. 3a, b
Lithophaga avellana (Orbigny) - Chernov & Yanin 1974: 38–39, (40, 41), figs. 1–5
Geographic distribution: Orgon (Vaucluse), Sainte-Croix, Arzier, Pierre-Chatel; Maidstone, Kent; Chlebowitz, Ignaziberg, Koniakau, Stramberg, Tieschan, Willamowitz
Geologic distribution: Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Valangian (Neocomian) to Barremian Remarks. The location of the figured type specimen is not known. The specimen MHNG 9601, described
and figured in Pictet & Campiche (1867), is also ovoid and without prominent beaks, thus not a member of
Botula, but probably a short inflated Lithophaga. Only Gillet (1924) mentioned avellana as L. (Botula).
Lithophaga fabaeformis Crespin, 1926
Lithophaga fabaeformis Crespin, 1926: (105, 108), 118–119, (122, 124, 228), pl. 9, figs. 14, 15, holotype (cast): NMVM P13447 (fig. 14), size: 17-6.5~4.5 mm, paratype (fig 15): NMVM P13448, size: 12.5-6.8- 7 mm (not 11.5- 6 mm), type locality: Outcrop 1, Green Gully, age: Janjukian of Torquay, Tertiary of Australia, Ironstone beds, Keilor; Kleemann 1983: (10, 27.32)
Geographic distribution: Outcrop 1, Green Gully, Keilor, Torquay, SE Australia
Geologic distribution: Oligo-Miocene (Ironstone beds, Janjukian)
Remarks. The oblong holotype is a member of Lithophaga, but the shorter paratype, as the name suggests, a bean-shaped cast of a Botula (Pl. 1, Fig. 9a, b); therefore it is mentioned here.
Lithophaga (?) manuanensis (Newton, 1909) (Pl. 1, Fig. 12a, b)
Lithophaga manuanensis Newton, 1909: 43 –44, pl. 4, figs. 1–3, holotype: BMNH L22035, size: 30-13-14 (29.3-12.9- 14.2) mm, type locality: Zululand, Tributaries of the Manuan Creek, age: Cretaceous; Kleemann 1983: (15, 28, 32), holotype? Botula
Geographic distribution: Manuan Creek, Zululand, South Africa
Geologic distribution: Late Cretaceous
Remarks. The fractured and deformed holotype is the only specimen. It was noted by Kleemann (1983: 12) as questionable Botula specimen, but due to observeable lateral sulci, it cannot be a member of Botula (Pl. 1, Fig. 12a, b).
description: 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 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177199