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 Dendostrea crenulifera ( Sowerby, 1871:67 , pl. 27, fig. 67a, b) ( Figure 2F ) Description Height, 30mm , shell shape variable. Shell margins usually crenulated: right valve usually heavily eroded such that the white, chalky calcareous shell layer is exposed. Thin, reddish brown radial lines on the right valves of uneroded specimens. Left valve also white. Small, rounded chomata are present either along the posterior and anterior margins or along the entire shell margins. Hinge line straight and short. Ligament area short. The green-tinted interior of the shell is a particular character of this species. Adductor muscle scar colourless, half-moon shaped or reniform. Type locality Red Sea. Distribution Red Sea and from Japan south into the Indo-West Pacific. Subtidal (. 7m ) boulders and associated with hard corals. The submarine cave at Conic Island.