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Spondylus
Genus of molluscs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the suffix "-spondylus" as used in taxonomy, see List of commonly used taxonomic affixes.
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 (though they are not, in fact, true oysters).
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Spondylus | |
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A shell of Spondylus regius | |
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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 | |
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