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Name:
Malleus albus & Spondylus variegatus & Balanus spec.
Common name:
Balanus spec. → Barnacle
Malleus albus → White hammer oyster
Spondylus variegatus → Spiny oysters, Thorny oysters
Synonym:
Malleus albus → Malleus novelesianus, (Iredale, 1931)
Spondylus variegatus → Spondylus aculeatus, (Schreibers, 1793)
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Malleidae → Malleus → albus → Malleus albus → Lamarck, 1819
Spondylidae → Spondylus → variegatus → Spondylus variegatus → Schreibers, 1793
Balanidae → Balanus → → Balanus spec. → Da Costa, 1778
Protection status:
Location:
Bohol, Philippines / Indo-Pacific
Size of the specimen:
Length: 20,3 cm
Width: 10,3 cm
Height: 6,3 cm
Weight:
Every hard bottom of tropical waters is colonized in a short time by the mostly free-swimming larvae of various otherwise sessile organisms, and this is how such interesting communities can form.
