Spondylus barbatus Reeve, 1856

Lam, Katherine, Morton, Brian & Leung, K. F., 2008, Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong, Journal of Natural History 42 (9 - 12), pp. 927-952 : 935

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930701862674
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scientific name	Spondylus barbatus Reeve, 1856
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Treatment

Spondylus barbatus Reeve, 1856 View in CoL :sp. 16

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Description

Shell length, 22 mm, irregularly ovate. Shell height slightly greater than length, shell moderately convex. Attached to hard substrata by the umbonal area of right valve. Shell reddish to purplish brown or pink. Surface ornamented with dense radial ribs. Dorsal ribs become longer and broader than the others and have spatulate ends.

Type locality

‘‘Philippine Islands’’.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific , including Japan and eastern Hong Kong, rocky subtidal 4–20 m.