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Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793 
AphiaID: 207867

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Spondylidae (Family) > Spondylus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Spondylus aculeatus Broderip, 1833
Spondylus ciliatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847
Spondylus coccineus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847
Spondylus gracilis Chenu, 1844
Spondylus hystrix Röding, 1798
Spondylus igneus Fulton, 1915
Spondylus lima Chenu, 1844
Spondylus lindea Iredale, 1939
Spondylus maculatus Schreibers, 1793
Spondylus percea Iredale, 1939
Spondylus pseudochama Schreibers, 1793
Spondylus radians Lamarck, 1819
Spondylus rostratus Chenu, 1844
Spondylus serratissimus Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Spondylus sparsispinosus Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Sources  basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details]

basis of record: 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. [details]

basis of record: 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: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details]

from synonym: Lamprell, K.L. (1987). Spiny oysters of the world - Spondylus. E.J. Brill/Dr W. Backhuys, Leiden. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011) Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. Online http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Spondylus nicobaricus ciliatus Habe, 1964 accepted as Spondylus imperialis Chenu, 1844
Environment marine
Distribution Comores [details]
Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Type locality: Type locality: unknown (Lamprell, 1998). Authority (Chemnitz) Schröter in Dautzenberg, 1929 [details]
Image 
Spondylus nicobaricus
Spondylus nicobaricus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207867
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-24 09:48:27Z  created  Onyango, Eunice
2002-07-24 17:19:06Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2012-07-05 23:43:01Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207867 on 2013-05-22
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