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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701862674
journal article
10.1080/00222930701862674
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Vulsella vulsella
(
Linnaeus, 1758:671
, no. 22)
(
Figure 2M
)
Description
Shell height up to
65 mm
, elongate-oval postero-ventrally, weakly convex, no byssus. Single ligament pit large. Shell exterior covered with thick brownish periostracum and irregularly radial riblets.
Interior
of white nacre. Shell microstrucuture similar to species of
Pteriidae
.
Type
locality
‘‘in Indiis’’.
Distribution
Indo-Pacific. Lives in sponges at depths of
5–20m
(
Reid and Porteous 1980
).