Delectopecten Stewart, 1930

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2), pp. 113-330 : 166

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8084C----

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87AD-F82C-3671-FC43-2BBDFA22F81F

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Delectopecten Stewart, 1930
status

 

Delectopecten Stewart, 1930 View in CoL

Delectopecten Stewart, 1930: 118 View in CoL (proposed as a subgenus of Palliolum View in CoL ). Type species (by original designation): Pecten View in CoL (Pseudamusium [sic]) vancouverensis Whiteaves, 1893; living, Forward Inlet, Quatsino Sound, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 18– 37 m.

Diagnosis. Inequivalve, small, fragile, almost circular camptonectinines, valves almost equal convex, sculptured with commarginal rows of scales or vesicles, spinose radial ridges and/or fine antimarginal striae; byssal notch welldeveloped; ctenolium prominent.

Distribution. Lower Cretaceous–Recent (Waller & Marincovich, 1992: 219). Cosmopolitan, 27–4256 m (Clarke, 1962: 60).

Remarks. Grau (1959: 38) considered Delectopecten to be a subgenus of Cyclopecten Verrill, 1897 , and placed Arctinula Thiele, 1934 and Catillopecten Iredale, 1939 in its synonymy. The morphological characters of Arctinula, however,

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Pectinida

Family

Pectinidae

Loc

Delectopecten Stewart, 1930

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G. 2018
2018
Loc

Delectopecten

Stewart, R 1930: 118
1930
Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF