Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong
Author
Lam, Katherine
Author
Morton, Brian
Author
Leung, K. F.
text
Journal of Natural History
2008
2008-03-31
42
9 - 12
927
952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701862674
journal article
10.1080/00222930701862674
1464-5262
5225019
Spondylus barbatus
Reeve, 1856
:sp. 16
(
Figure 3
)
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
.