🔗 Spondylus

🔗 Palaeontology 🔗 Marine life 🔗 Indigenous peoples of the Americas 🔗 Bivalves

Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae. They are known in English as spiny oysters or thorny oysters (though they are not, in fact, true oysters).