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Species Spondylus ocellatus Reeve, 1856

Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Spondylus ocellatus Reeve, L.A. 1856. Monograph of the genus Spondylus. pls 1-18 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 9. [pl. 12, sp. 43].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1996253/1, Philippines.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Spondylus nicobaricus ocellatus Reeve, 1856. —
Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [120, fig. 292]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

(map not available)

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to stones and coral plates on reef flats

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, fig. 2] (as Spondylus nicobaricus form ocellatus)

Lamprell, K. 2006. Spiny Oysters. A revision of the living Spondylus species of the world. Brisbane : Jean Lamprell pp. 1-119. [48, pl. 12, figs A-G]

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [120, fig. 292] (as Spondylus nicobaricus ocellatus)

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 [142, figs 9 C-D] (recognition of S. ocellatus as a valid species rather than a form of S. nicobaricus)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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