Species Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, 1793

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, K. 1793. Versuch einer vollstandigen Conchylienkenntniss nach Linnaeus System. Vienna pp. 151-171. [164].
• Spondylus albus Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [junior homonym; not Spondylus albus Schreibers, 1793].
• Spondylus albus Chenu, J.C. 1845. Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Paris : Fortum & Masson Vol. 2. [5] [junior homonym; not Spondylus albus Schreibers, 1793].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to coral and silty rocks to 20 m depth

 

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] [26, pl. 6, fig. 1] (general reference)

Lamprell, K. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [38, pl. 7, figs G-K]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [118, fig. 288]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 2001. Spondylidae (Bivalvia) from New Caledonia and adjacent waters. pp. 111-163 in Bouchet, P. & Marshall, B.A. (eds). Tropical deep-sea benthos, Volume 22. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 185: 1–406 [133, figs 7c-d] (general reference)

 

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)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	29-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
26-Jun-2013		26-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
		11-Jan-2011	MODIFIED