Species Spondylus linguafelis Sowerby, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spondylus linguafelis Sowerby, G.B. 2nd 1847. Descriptions of several new species of Spondylus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 86-88 [87] [later figured in G.B. Sowerby II (1847: 420, pl. 88, fig. 50) Thesaurus Conchyliorum].
• Spondylus gloriosus Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [102].
• Spondylus kauaiensis Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [103].
• Spondylus mimus Dall, W.H., Bartsch, P. & Rehder, H.A. 1938. A manual of the recent and fossil marine Pelecypod mollusks of the Hawaiian Island. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 153: 3-233, pls 1-57 [Date published July 25] [102].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In marine caves and under overhangs along rock walls subject to currents in more than 10 m

 

General References

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Lamprell, K. 1987 [1986]. Spondylus: Spiny Oyster Shells of the World. Bathurst : Robert Brown & Associates 84 pp. [Date published 1987: imprint date of 1986] [20, pl. 3, fig. 2]

Lamprell, K. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [92, pl. 34, figs E-K]

Skoglund, C. 2000. Spondylus linguafelis Sowerby, G.B.II, 1847 (Bivalvia: Spondylidae) in the Panamic Province, with notes on the occurence of Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793. Festivus 32: 3-7

Sowerby, G.B. II 1847-1855. Spondylus. pp. 417-434, pls 84-89 in Sowerby, G.B. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London Vol. 1-2 pp. 1-438, 439-899. [p. 420, pl. 88, fig. 50]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		02-Mar-2011	ADDED