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Spondylus layardi Reeve, 1856

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Relation https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14997/
http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/12412/
 
Title Spondylus layardi Reeve, 1856
 
Creator Behera, Pralaya Ranjan
 
Subject Mariculture
Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description Shell is solid, pear shaped and moderately inflated with a height of 80 mm. Sculpture of obscure radial ribs ornamented with sparse spinose or narrowly spatulate spines in irregular rows, interstices with dense rows of small overlapping spines. Body color is dark purple or brown with some white or blood coloured spotting at the umbo; spines brown, rarely white; internally blue white with a dark brown, finely crenulated margin.
 
Publisher ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier https://eprints.cmfri.org.in/14997/1/Spondylus%20layardi.pdf
Behera, Pralaya Ranjan (2017) Spondylus layardi Reeve, 1856. In: Prioritized Species for Mariculture in India. ICAR - Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, pp. 421-424. ISBN 978-93-82263-14-2