PTERIIDAE, Gray, 1847
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PTERIIDAE View in CoL Electroma fuscopurpurea ( Smith, 1876)
Habitat. Attached by a byssus to a wide variety of living corals, usually of a branching form. Also frequent on Millepora. From 0.5 to 10 m.
Distribution. Can be found around the lagoon but appears to prefer areas with a higher suspension load and is a dominant feature in the area between Ile
Gombrani and Port Sud-Est.
Remarks. At first we believed this to be a variety of the widespread E. alacorvi (Dillwyn, 1817) but comparing Rodrigues material with that of E. alacorvi from the Red Sea we found anatomical differences. This suggests that a complex of species may exist. Observations in the Red Sea suggested that E. alacorvi was always attached to Millepora and not hard corals ( Zuschin and Oliver, 2003). Such a restricted association is not the case at Rodrigues for E. fuscopurpurea .
SMITH, E. A., 1876, Diagnoses of new species of Mollusca and Echinodermata from the island of Rodriguez, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 17, 404 - 406.
ZUSCHIN, M. and OLIVER, P. G., 2003, Bivalves and Bivalve Habitats in the Northern Red Sea. The Northern Bay of Safaga (Red Sea, Egypt). An Actuapaleontological Approach. VI Bivalvia (Vienna: Der Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums), 302 pp.
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