European thorny oyster, Spondylus gaederopus (Subauriculated spondylus, Spondylus goederopus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.

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