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Lopha

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Ostreina

Family
  
Ostreidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Bivalvia

Superfamily
  
Ostreoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Ostreoida


Similar
  
Lopha gregarea, Ostreoida, Gryphaea, Hyotissa, Lopha marshii

lopha


Lopha is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Ostreidae.

Contents

The genus Lopha is present from the Triassic period in the Lower Norian age (216.5 ± 2.0 – 203.6 ± 1.5 Mya) to the recent age.

Description

Lopha species have thick, strongly ribbed shells with unequal valves. The margins of the valves have a characteristic zig-zag pattern. The lower valve shows finger-like outgrowths, by which the molluscs adhere to the substrate. These molluscs are stationary, epifaunal, suspension feeders, as they feed by filtering sea water to extract the nutrients.

Species


  • Lopha affinis Sowerby, 1871
  • Lopha capsa Fischer von Waldheim, 1808
  • Lopha chemnitzii Hanley, 1846
  • Lopha cristagalli C. Linnaeus, 1758
  • Lopha frons C. Linnaeus, 1758
  • Lopha imbricata J. B. Lamarck, 1819
  • Lopha rosacea G. P. Deshayes, 1836

    • Fossil species

  • Lopha gregarea, Oxfordian (stage) (160 mya)
  • Lopha marshii (Sowerby, 1914), Bajocian (170 mya)

    • Lopha Lopha sp TOPGEO

    References

    Lopha Wikipedia
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