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Name:
Common name:
spiny oysters, thorny oysters
Synonym:
Spondylus aculeatus, (Schreibers, 1793)
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Spondylidae → Spondylus → variegatus → Spondylus variegatus → Schreibers, 1793
Protection status:
Location:
Olango Island, Cebu / Philippines
Size of the specimen:
Length: 18 cm
Width: 10 cm
Height: 8,5 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.