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Name:
Spondylus spec. & Lopha spec.
Common name:
Lopha spec. → Cockscomb oyster
Spondylus spec. → Spiny oysters, Thorny oysters
Synonym:
Lopha spec. → Alectryonia, (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807)
Family / Genus / Binom / Author:
Spondylidae → Spondylus → Spondylus spec. → Linnaeus, 1758
Ostreidae → Lopha → Lopha spec. → Röding, 1798
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Size of the specimen:
Length: 15,2 cm
Width: 10,7 cm
Height: 7,6 cm
Weight:
An aesthetic cluster of various seashells that have grown together on a boulder. 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.