Shell Family of Taiwan
Spondylidae 海菊蛤科contain41 species in Taiwan，show31 - 41
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Spondylidae 海菊蛤科：This family is characterized by attaching to hard objects by the surface of right valve, which is generally larger and deeper than left valve. Shell is commonly medium or large-sized, having both auricles of similar size, without byssal gape is observed. Right valve has a triangular cardinal area. A pair of crural teeth developed on both sides of resilium pit. Disk of left valve (or both valves) ornamented with radial ribs of a few orders, on which significant spiny projections occur in most species. Outer layer consists of foliated calcite, and inner layer is wholly composed of crossed-lamellar aragonite. Soft part is essentially similar to that of the Pectinidae, but mantle margin lacks tentacles.
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 Spondylus nicobaricus nicobaricus 尼可巴海菊蛤  Schreibers, 1793  
 Spondylus raoulensis   Oliver, 1915  
 Spondylus regius 猩猩海菊蛤  (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 Spondylus serraticosta   Prashad, 1932  
 Spondylus sinensis 中華海菊蛤  Schreibers, 1793  
 Spondylus spectrum   Reeve, 1856  
 Spondylus spinosus   Schreibers, 1793  
 Spondylus squamosus 魚鱗海菊蛤  Schreibers, 1793  
 Spondylus varius 藍巨海菊蛤  Sowerby, 1829  
 Spondylus versicolor 金黃海菊蛤  Schreibers, 1793  
 Spondylus wrightianus   Crosse, 1872