Species List for Family: Spondylidae
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- Spondylus nicobaricus Schreibers, 1793
Height 43mm
Marine
Loyalty Ridge, northern Lord Howe Rise, northern Three Kings Rise, Kermadec Ridge and off White Island, north-eastern North Island, 155-841 metres. Also South China Sea and Queensland
KA - Spondylus occidens G.B. Sowerby III, 1903
Height 60mm
Marine
Norfolk Island to West Norfolk Ridge, Kermadec Islands to Kermadec Ridge 111-220 metres. Also Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean), Japan, Indonesia, Queensland, New Caledonia and Vanuatu
K - Spondylus ostreoides E.A. Smith, 1885
Height 13.8mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Off Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, 950 metres
K - Spondylus proneri Lamprell & Healy, 2001
Height 27mm
Marine
Middleton Reef, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Macauley Island, Kermadec Islands. Also Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Loyalty Ridge and Vanuatu. 210-960 metres
K - Spondylus raoulensis W.R.B. Oliver, 1915
Height 130mm
Marine, Native - Endemic
Kermadec Islands, 0-113 metres.
K
Key to Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species.
They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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