Species Spondylus occidens Sowerby, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spondylus occidens Sowerby, G.B. 3rd 1903. Descriptions of new species of Nassa, Purpura, Latirus, Voluta, Conus, Stomella and Spondylus. Journal of Malacology 10(3): 73-77, pl. 5 [77, pl. 5, fig. 9] (original reference not seen).

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1903.11.5.9, Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to dead coral and shell debris to 260 m

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. & Marshall, B.A. 2008. The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca; Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae). Molluscan Research 28(1): 1-88 [76-77, figs 64C, D, J, 66]

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] [36, pl. 11, fig, 1a, 1b, 3] (as Spondylus anacanthus)

Lamprell, K. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [96, pl. 36, figs A-H]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [120, no. 297 and 126] (as Spondylus jamarci)

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 [123, figs 4a-d]

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 [91-93, figs 3F, 4A-B] (as Spondylus anacanthus)

 

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
		14-Jan-2011	MODIFIED