Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847
SOWERBY II, G. B. 1847. Descriptions of several new species of Spondylus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 86-88. [p. 87]
1847 Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847
1856 Spondylus radula Reeve, 1856
1857 Spondylus calcifer Carpenter, 1857
1915 Spondylus smithi Fulton, 1915
1856 Spondylus radula Reeve, 1856
1857 Spondylus calcifer Carpenter, 1857
1915 Spondylus smithi Fulton, 1915
Spondylus limbatus, Sowerby; G. B. Sowerby II, 1847, Monograph of the genus Spondylus, Thesaurus conchyliorum; or, monographs of genera of shells, plate 88, figure 51.
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«SPONDYLUS LIMBATUS. Spond. testâ ovali, crassâ, vix costatâ, squamis depressis, laevibus, palmatis, brevibus, irregularibus, inaequalibus, 9 ad 11 dispositis; interstitiis minutissimè striatis, cardine magno; colore squamarum crocco, interstitiarum obscurè violaceo; intus limbo purpureo.
Hab. Persian Gulf. Mus. Grüner. Brit. Mus.; G. B. Sowerby.»
GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY II, 1847
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«Spondylus calcifer Carpenter, 1857 (p. 152), is one of the most typical Panamic bivalves. Indeed, Carpenter himself extracted many species in his famous Mazatlán catalogue by breaking up shells of S. calcifer. Found in and on these shells were not only various borers and nestlers, but also many gastropods that had taken refuge in their abandoned burrows and other niches and crevices. Indeed, he even smashed the type material of S. calcifer itself in his search (Keen, 1968: 393)!
It thus came as somewhat of a sho ck to discover th is well-known species placed into synonymy in a paper focused chiefly on the spondylids of the eastern Atlantic (Lamprell et al., 2001:615). As it turns out, Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847 (1847a: 87; 1847b: 427, plate 88, figure 51), described from the “Persian Gulf”, was not from there at all, but rather was instead from the eastern Pacific [BMNH 1846.12.4.1], giving it a decade’s precedence over S. calcifer. Unfortunately, the name S. limbatus has been repeatedly used in the literature, albeit in the wrong province, so that it is not a nomen oblitum under the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), so as to trigger its “Reversal of precedence” provisions (Article 23.9.1-2), and the name S. calcifer is not so universally known that we feel it worthwhile to prepare a petition to the International Commission to conserve it under Article 23.9.3. As a result, we propose to use the earliest available name for the species, S. limbatus, for the eastern Pacific species. The species occurs from Bahía de Choya, Sonora, México, to Caleta Mero, Tumbes, Perú, from the intertidal zone to 18 m.» COAN, E. V. & P. VALENTICH-SCOTT. 2008. Three nomenclatural notes on Panamic bivalves. The Festivus, 40 (4): 49-54, figs. 1-3. [p. 49]
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Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847; E. V. Coan & P. Valentich-Scott, 2008, Three nomenclatural notes on Panamic bivalves, figure 2.
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