Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Spondylus limbatus
Concha, Shell
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Pectinida
Superfamily
Pectinoidea
Family
Spondylidae
Genus
Spondylus
Species
limbatus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Spondylus calcifer Carpenter, 1857 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Keen, A.M. Coan, E. (1975) "Sea Shells of Tropical West America": additions and corrections to 1975. The Western Society of Malacologists, Occasional Paper 1: 66 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Spondylus limbatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20136. Accessed 12 May 2026.