Semele lamellosa (Sowerby, 1833)

Oliver, P. Graham, Holmes, Anna, Killeen, Ian, Light, Janice & Wood, Harriet, 2004, Annotated checklist of the marine Bivalvia of Rodrigues, Journal of Natural History 38 (23), pp. 3229-3272 : 3259-3261

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scientific name

Semele lamellosa (Sowerby, 1833)
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Semele lamellosa (Sowerby, 1833)

Habitat. Burrowing in sand among coral rubble, sublittoral.

FIG. 8.

Distribution. Living west of Ile Hermitage. Ile Gombrani.

Remarks. This is a large shell with widely spaced recurving lamellae that are crispate along their upper margins. It is similar to S. carnicolor (see below) but in that species the lamellae are lower, more dense and the crispate sculpture is expressed on both the lamellae and the interspaces. From the Viader collection

in the National Museum of Wales this is the S. crenulata listed but it is not the S. jukesi listed in Viader (1937).

Range. Indo-Pacific [M].

Figured specimen. 36.0 mm, NMW.Z.1999.073.00041.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Asparagaceae

Genus

Semele

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