Volume 16: 31 August 1995

The Recent Spondylidae of South Africa and Mozambique, with the description of a new species (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pectinoidea).

K.L. Lamprell* and R.N. Kilburn**

*Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101.
**Natal Museum, Private Bag 9070, Pietermaritzburg 3200, South Africa.

Ten species of the genus Spondylus are recorded from South Africa and Mozambique (6 from South Africa, 9 from Mozambique). Of these, only Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793, has been reported previously. Spondylus groschi from Mozambique and Natal is described as new. The remainder are widely distributed Indo-Pacific taxa: Spondylus cuneus Reeve, 1856, Spondylus sinesis Schreibers, 1793, Spondylus occidens Sowerby, 1903, Spondylus sanguineus Dunker, 1852, Spondylus castus Reeve, 1856, Spondylus butleri Reeve, 1856, Spondylus flabellum Reeve, 1856, and Spondylus tenuispinosus Sowerby, 1847.

pp. 81-95

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