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Name:
Spondylus echinatus on Placuna ephippium
Common name:
Placuna ephippium → Saddle window shell, Capiz shell
Spondylus echinatus → Spiny oysters, Thorny oysters
Synonym:
Spondylus echinatus → Spondylus albibarbatus, (Reeve, 1856)
Placuna ephippium → Placuna sella, (Gmelin, 1791)
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Spondylidae → Spondylus → echinatus → Spondylus echinatus → Schreibers, 1793
Placunidae → Placuna → ephippium → Placuna ephippium → Philipsson, 1788
Protection status:
Location:
Negros Occidental / Philippines
Size of the specimen:
Length: 16,3 cm
Width: 6,3 cm
Height: 14,3 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.
