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Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847 
AphiaID: 207886

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 calcifer Carpenter, 1857
Spondylus lamarckii Carpenter, 1857
Spondylus radula Reeve, 1856 (invalid: junior homonym of Spondylus radula Lamarck, 1806; S. smithi is a replacement name)
Spondylus smithi Fulton, 1915
Sources  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]

additional source: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2008) Three nomenclatural notes on Panamic bivalves. The Festivus 40(4): 49-54. [details]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

Distribution Djibouti [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Type locality: Type locality: Persian Gulf [details]
Image 
Spondylus limbatus
Spondylus limbatus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207886
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2001-05-02 17:36:50Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2001-12-09 13:54:23Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207886 on 2013-05-19
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