Species Profile
Spondylus
Thorny oyster
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassBivalvia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Spondylus lives attached to hard substrates.
It is sedentary and filter-feeding.
Distinctive spiny shell mollusc.
Size & Structure
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Thick spiny shell
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Bright red or orange
03
Irregular shape
04
Strong hinge
Spondylus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- External
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Ganglionic
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation, single
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton (spiny shell)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Filter feeder
Reef habitat contributor
Marine biodiversity
Economic Importance
Shell ornaments
Marine studies
Cultural value