Spondylus gussoni

Author
O.G. Costa, 1829

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Min Depth
168 meters
Max Depth
686 meters
Overall Geographic Range
Texas, Yucatán Strait, Antilles; Mediterranean
Habitat-Biology
  • benthic
  • epibiotic
  • sessile
References

  • Abbott, R. T. 1974. American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America, 2nd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, New York. 663 pp.

  • Hyde, L. J. 2000. The systematics, distribution, and ecology of the mollusks of Stetson Bank, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. M.S. Thesis, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas. 216 pp.

  • Mikkelsen, P. M. 2006. Western Atlantic Bivalves, ver. 1. URL: http://peet.amnh.org/Western_Atlantic_Bivalves/families/list.html, accessed June 14, 2006.

  • Odé, H. 1964–2001. Distribution and records of the marine Mollusca in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. A continuing monograph. Texas Conchologist, Vol. 1–38.

  • Singley, J. A. 1893. Texas Mollusca: A preliminary list of the land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca of Texas. P. 299 in E. T. Dumble, ed. Fourth Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas 1892. Department of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, and History.

Species Notes

None noted.

Source

Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

GulfBase Citation

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-14-2024.

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