Dendostrea crenulifera (Sowerby, 1871)

Lam, Katherine, Morton, Brian & Leung, K. F., 2008, Shell-bearing Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) from submarine caves in Hong Kong, Journal of Natural History 42 (9 - 12), pp. 927-952 : 933-934

Dendostrea crenulifera ( Sowerby, 1871:67, pl. 27, fig. 67a, b)

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Description

Height, 30mm, shell shape variable. Shell margins usually crenulated: right valve usually heavily eroded such that the white, chalky calcareous shell layer is exposed. Thin, reddish brown radial lines on the right valves of uneroded specimens. Left valve also white. Small, rounded chomata are present either along the posterior and anterior margins or along the entire shell margins. Hinge line straight and short. Ligament area short. The green-tinted interior of the shell is a particular character of this species. Adductor muscle scar colourless, half-moon shaped or reniform.

Type locality

Red Sea.

Distribution

Red Sea and from Japan south into the Indo-West Pacific. Subtidal (. 7m) boulders and associated with hard corals. The submarine cave at Conic Island.

Figures

Figure 2. A, Acar plicata, height×length57.2×12.9 mm; B, Arca avellana, heigh- t×length512.2×26.1 mm; C, Lithophaga malaccana, height×length517.7×7.87 mm; D, Modiolus comptus, height×length57.05×4.82 mm; E, Septifer bilocularis, heigh- t×length537.8×19.8 mm; F, Dendostrea crenulifera, height×length53.4×2.4 mm; G and H, Hyotissa sinensis (NHM 20030494), height×length5129×117 mm; I, Spondylus cf. anacanthus, height×length58.31×15.07 mm; J, Anomia chinensis, heigh- t×length52.4×2.4 mm; K, Pinctada martensii, height×length514.48×15.35 mm; L, Isognomon legumen, height×length528×14.77 mm; M, Vulsella vulsella, heigh- t×length564.19×32.96 mm; N, Ephippodonta oedipus, height×length50.51×3.25 mm; O, Mysella compacta, height×length51.84×4.5 mm; P, Claudiconcha japonica, heigh- t×length54.75×5.08 mm; Q, Hiatella orientalis, height×length511.9×13.1 mm.