🦋 Family

Spondylidae

2 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Pectinida › Spondylidae

Spondylus varius is the largest spiny oyster, found in the Indo-Pacific, living at 30m depth and filter-feeding on plankton.

Spondylus gaederopus is an edible Mediterranean bivalve that suffered widespread unexplained colony collapse in the early 1980s.

Related Families

Pectinidae 28 species Anomiidae 4 species Placunidae 1 species Plicatulidae 1 species

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