Species Spondylus eastae Lamprell, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spondylus eastae Lamprell, K. 1992. Notes on the genus Spondylus Linnaeus with descriptions of two new species from Western Australia (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Spondylidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 189-194 [190, fig. 2a-d].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 563-91, Schofield Shoal, SW Exmouth Gulf, WA, 7-11 m.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Habitat: coral reef, embedded in dead coral boulders and depressions on reef, among sponges and gorgonian corals, usually covered in red sponge (Lamprell & Healy 1998).

 

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. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [56, pl. 16, figs A-F]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [116, no. 283]

 

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)
26-Jun-2013		26-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2011	MODIFIED