Spondylus exilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1895
SOWERBY III, G. B. 1895. New species of Shells from Kurachi and the Mekran Coast, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 1: 278-280, pl. 18. [p. 280, pl. 18, fig. 14]
1895 Spondylus exilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1895
G. B. Sowerby III, 1895, plate 18.
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«Testa ovalis, crassa, aspera, alba, prope umbones aurantia, rubro tincta, costis irregularibus, squamis brevibus diversiformibus munitis instructis; squamis iuterstitialibus densis acutis irregularibus; cardo normalis. Long. 80, alt. 70 mm.
Hab.— Karachi.
A short-spined Spondylus of irregular growth. The orange and pink colouring near the umbo reminds one of the West Indian S. Americanus.» GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY III, 1895
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