Marine Species Traits - Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, 1793

WoRMS taxon details

Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, 1793

To MNHN Fossil collection (Spondylus castus REEVE, 1856; Figuré; F.A26743)

AphiaID

506971 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506971)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, 1793

Synonymised names

Spondylus albibarbatus Reeve, 1856 · unaccepted

Spondylus albus Anton, 1838 · unaccepted

Spondylus albus Chenu, 1844 · unaccepted (not an available name: not the...)

not an available name: not the first validation of a non-binomial name in Chemnitz (1786)

Spondylus castus Reeve, 1856 · unaccepted

Spondylus spectrum Reeve, 1856 · unaccepted

Spondylus spinulosus Kuster, 1858 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Schreibers, K. (1793). Versuch einer vollständigen Conchylienkenntniß nach Linnes System. Wien. (Kurzbeck). Erster Band. Von den Schnecken. [1-12], 1-446, [447]. Zweyter Band. Von den Muscheln. pp. [1-9], 1-416. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PPN=PPN599393750
page(s): 164; note: based on Chemnitz (1786), vol. 9, pl. 115 fig. 988-989 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Spondylus echinatus Schreibers, 1793. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506971 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Schreibers, K. (1793). Versuch einer vollständigen Conchylienkenntniß nach Linnes System. Wien. (Kurzbeck). Erster Band. Von den Schnecken. [1-12], 1-446, [447]. Zweyter Band. Von den Muscheln. pp. [1-9], 1-416. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/toc/?PPN=PPN599393750
page(s): 164; note: based on Chemnitz (1786), vol. 9, pl. 115 fig. 988-989 [details]

original description (of Spondylus albibarbatus Reeve, 1856) Reeve, L. A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Spondylus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 9, pl. 1-18 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-4, January 1856; pl. 5-8, February 1856; pl. 9-14, May 1856; pl. 15-18, June 1856]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9141459 [details]

original description (of Spondylus castus Reeve, 1856) Reeve, L. A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Spondylus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 9, pl. 1-18 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-4, January 1856; pl. 5-8, February 1856; pl. 9-14, May 1856; pl. 15-18, June 1856]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9141459 [details]

original description (of Spondylus albus Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, The Veliger 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 19; note: based on Chemnitz (1786), p.143, pl.115 figs 988–990 (unavailale because non-binomial) [details]

original description (of Spondylus spectrum Reeve, 1856) Reeve, L. A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Spondylus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 9, pl. 1-18 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-4, January 1856; pl. 5-8, February 1856; pl. 9-14, May 1856; pl. 15-18, June 1856]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9141459 [details]

original description (of Spondylus spinulosus Kuster, 1858) Küster, H.C. & Kobelt, W. (1842–1888). Die Gattungen Spondylus und Pecten. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz 7 (2). Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. [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. (look up in IMIS) [details]