Spondylus
| Spondylus Temporal range: | |
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| A shell of Spondylus regius | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Superfamily: | Pectinoidea |
| Family: | Spondylidae Gray, 1826 |
| Subfamily: | Spondylinae Gray, 1826 |
| Genus: | Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Spondylus gaederopus | |
| Species | |
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Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae and subfamily Spondylinae. They are known in English as spiny oysters or thorny oysters (although they are not, in fact, true oysters, but are related to scallops).