Spondylus

For the suffix "-spondylus" as used in taxonomy, see List of commonly used taxonomic affixes.

Spondylus
Temporal range: Triassic - Recent
A shell of "Spondylus regius"
A shell of Spondylus regius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Superfamily: Pectinoidea
Family: Spondylidae
Gray, 1826
Genus: Spondylus
Linnaeus, 1758[1]
Type species
Spondylus gaederopus
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Carallospondylus Monterosato, 1917
  • † Dianchora J. Sowerby, 1815
  • Eleutherospondylos Dunker, 1882
  • Eltopera Iredale, 1939
  • Lanilda Iredale, 1939
  • Spondylus (Corallospondylus) Monterosato, 1917
  • Spondylus (Eleutherospondylos) Dunker, 1882
  • Spondylus (Eltopera) Iredale, 1939
  • Spondylus (Lanilda) Iredale, 1939
  • Spondylus (Rimaespondylus) Damarco, 2015 (unavailable name: no type species designated)
  • Spondylus (Sponvola) Iredale, 1939
  • Sponvola Iredale, 1939

Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae.[2] They are known in English as spiny oysters or thorny oysters (although they are not, in fact, true oysters, but are related to scallops).

  1. ^ Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/3/mode/1up
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138518 on 2019-03-04