Species Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793

Museums

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• Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, K. 1793. Versuch einer vollstandigen Conchylienkenntniss nach Linnaeus System. Vienna pp. 151-171. [154].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown [= Nicobar Islands (Chemnitz 1784)].
• Spondylus pseudochama Schreibers, K. 1793. Versuch einer vollstandigen Conchylienkenntniss nach Linnaeus System. Vienna pp. 151-171. [156].
• Spondylus hystrix Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [195].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown [= Nicobar Islands (Chemnitz 1784)].
• Spondylus radians Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [192].
• Spondylus aculeatus Broderip, W.J. 1833. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming [part]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 4-9 [5].
• Spondylus gracilis Chenu, J.C. 1845. Illustrations Conchyliologiques. Paris : Fortum & Masson Vol. 2. [5, pl. 26, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Seas.
• Spondylus ciliatus Sowerby, G.B. 1847-1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London Vol. 1-2 pp. 1-438, 439-899. [429].
• Spondylus coccineus Sowerby, G.B. 2nd 1847. Descriptions of several new species of Spondylus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 86-88 [fig. 47] [junior homonym; not Spondylus coccineus Schreibers, 1793].
• Spondylus igneus Fulton, H.C. 1915. A list of the recent species of Spondylus Linné with some notes and descriptions of six new forms. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 331-362 [354, no. 51] [original reference seen].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Spondylus serratissimus 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] [97, pl. 25, figs 9-12].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 337513, off Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, 17-33 fathoms.
• Spondylus lindea Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [376].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.61522 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Whitsunday Passage, off Lindeman Island, Queensland, Australia [20°27‘0‘S 149°1‘58.8‘E].
• Spondylus percea Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [376].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.170922 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Whitsunday Passage, Lindeman Island, Queensland, Australia [20°27‘0‘S 149°1‘58.8‘E].
• Spondylus parocellatus Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [376].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.170921, Great Barrier Reef, Whitsunday Passage, Lindeman Island, Queensland, Australia [20°27‘0‘S 149°1‘58.8‘E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Spondylus nicobaricus gracilis Chenu, 1845. —
  Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [120, fig. 292]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and dead coral or inside oyster shells in shallow water, to about 20 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] [28, pl. 7, fig. 1] (28, pl. 7, fig. 3, as Spondylus nicobaricus form gracilis)

Lamprell, K. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [46, pl. 11, fig. F-K]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [118, fig. 291] (and 120, fig. 293 as Spondylus nicobaricus gracilis Chenu, 1845)

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 [143, fig. 10a]

Lamprell, K. & Kilburn, R.N. 1995. The Recent Spondylidae of South Africa and Mozambique, with the description of a new species (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pectinoidea). Molluscan Research 16: 81-95 [92-95, fig. 4C-F] (contains synonymy)

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 [55, pl. 3, figs. 4-5] (contains synonymy)

 

History of changes

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