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Xylophaga lambula Voight, 2024
1765676 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1765676)
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Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Voight, J. R. (2024). Three new species of wood-boring bivalves (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the deep Northwest Atlantic Ocean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5493(3): 275-290., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5493.3.4
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Note E of Norfolk, Virginia, 36°54’ 30” N,...
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Type locality E of Norfolk, Virginia, 36°54’ 30” N, 68°04’ 30”W, 4879 m. [details]
Etymology Named with thanks for Cathy Lamb, who as a (former Smithsonian Institution) museum technician collected all but four of the...
Etymology Named with thanks for Cathy Lamb, who as a (former Smithsonian Institution) museum technician collected all but four of the 33 lots of specimens reported in the original description. The diminutive suffix “ula” (L); Little refers to the size of the specimen. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xylophaga lambula Voight, 2024. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1765676 on 2025-09-11
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Voight, J. R. (2024). Three new species of wood-boring bivalves (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the deep Northwest Atlantic Ocean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5493(3): 275-290., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5493.3.4
page(s): 284, fig. 7 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 284, fig. 7 [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Etymology Named with thanks for Cathy Lamb, who as a (former Smithsonian Institution) museum technician collected all but four of the 33 lots of specimens reported in the original description. The diminutive suffix “ula” (L); Little refers to the size of the specimen. [details]Type locality E of Norfolk, Virginia, 36°54’ 30” N, 68°04’ 30”W, 4879 m. [details]
