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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The sub-genus Lycophoria was founded by Lahusen (1886, p. 221), and referred to the Strophomenidae, the only species described, Lycophoria nucella (Dalman, 1828, p. 130) being the genotype. Part of the original diagnosis runs: “Klappen convex; Rückenklappe stärker gewölbt, am Stirnrande ein breiter flacher Sinus. In der Bauchklappe eine kleine dreiseitige Area mit dreieckiger offener Deltidialspalte. Schlosszähne von zwei divergirenden Zahnplatten gestützt, die in ihrer Fortsetzung am Grunde der Schale eine längliche, durch eine kurze Mittelleiste getheilte Muskelgrube umgrenzen. In der Rückenklappe ein starker, hakenförmiger Cruralfortsatz, innen durch eine Längsfurche getheilt und auf der Rückseite mit einem kleinen, zahnartigen Schlossfortsatz verbunden” (Lahusen, 1886, p. 221). Lycophoria has also been discussed by Hall and Clarke (1894, p. 230), by Kozlowski (1929, p. 131), who placed it with the Porambonitidae in the Telotremata, and by Schuchert and Cooper (1932, pp. 105–6), who regarded it as the sole representative of a new family of the Orthacea. The close external similarity to Porambonites and the fact that Lycophoria had also been referred to the Pentameracea, led the writer to investigate Lahusen's genus in a search for possible ancestors of the pentamerids.
