Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinoida > Superfamily Pectinoidea > Family Spondylidae

Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus, 1758
Spondylus gussonii O. G. Costa, 1830
Spondylus multisetosus Reeve, 1856
Spondylus senegalensis Schreibers, 1793
Spondylus spinosus Schreibers, 1793

Literature

original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.

basis of record

Lamprell K.L. (1998). Recent Spondylus species from the Middle East and adjacent regions, with the description of two new species. Vita Marina 45(1-2): 41-60.

redescription

Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

subsequent type designation

Schmidt F.C. 1818, Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung: Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und gegenṣtände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme. Gotha, J. Perth, 252 pp.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138518

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Occurrence

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2013-05-15 by Serge Gofas

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