Spondylus variegatus Schreibers, 1793
SCHREIBERS, K. 1793. Versuch einer vollständigen Conchylienkenntniß nach Linnes System. Zweyter Band. Von den Muscheln. 416 p. Wien. [p. 154]
1793 Spondylus variegatus Schreibers, 1793
1793 Spondylus aculeatus Schreibers, 1793
1819 Spondylus variegatus Lamarck, 1819
1793 Spondylus aculeatus Schreibers, 1793
1819 Spondylus variegatus Lamarck, 1819
F. H. Martini & J. H. Chemnitz, 1769-1795, Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet, Band 7, plate 45.
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«Ab. f. Spondylus variegatus Die bunte Lazarusklappe.
Martini Conchyl. Th. 7. tab. 45. Fig. 464.
Ist weiß mit einigen braunröthlichen, purpurfärbigen Zickzacklinien und einem großen, purpurrothen Fleck beym Wirbel. Auf den wulstigen, weissen, senkrechten Streiffen stehen lange, unten rinnen förmige Stacheln, die nahe am äußeren, gekerbten und rothbräunlich eingefaßten Rande am stärksten sind. Dieser Spondylus kommt ebenfalls aus Ostindien.» KARL SCHREIBERS, 1793
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«DISTRIBUTION. — Indo-West Pacific: the Philippines, Amboina, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia. Attached to corals or shell debris to 11 m.
DESCRIPTION. — Shell to 45 mm in height; ovate, equivalve. Sculpture of 6 principal ribs which bear strong, distant, upright spines; interstices with several minor ribs, ornamented with short, sharp, spines. Colour white with purple-brown, fine, concentric, zigzag angulated lines across the shell surface; anterior and posterior margins near the auricles have colour bars crossing the two margins as in S. sinensis; internally white with colour variegated crenulated margin.
REMARKS. — Spondylus variegatus is readily separated from other Spondylus species by the consistent purple-brown zigzag colour bands externally and strong, sharp, upright spines. The largest of the three specimens from New Caledonia measures in height 33.2 mm and was obtained from a depth of 11 m.»
LAMPRELL, K. L. & J. M. HEALY. 2001. Spondylidae (Bivalvia) from New Caledonia and adjacent waters. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 185: 111-163 (In: P. Bouchet & B. A. Marshall Eds., Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 22). [p. 137]
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Spondylus variegatus Schreibers, 1793; K. L. Lamprell & J. M. Healy, 2001, Spondylidae (Bivalvia) from New Caledonia and adjacent waters, figures 8B.
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