Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Maestrati, Philippe, 2010, Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia), Zoosystema 32 (2), pp. 333-358 : 352

Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995 ( Fig. 5C )

Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995b: 17 (nomen novum for Pecten aurantiacus Adams & Reeve, 1850 , non Pecten aurantiacus J. de C. Sowerby, 1820, nec Defrance, 1825).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China Sea. Holotype (spm) ( BMNH 1950.11.14.8).

Tubuai. BENTHAUS, stn DW 1957, 23°19’S, 149°29’W, 558-1000 m, 1 lv.

DISTRIBUTION. — Réunion Island, Thailand, southern Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Coral Sea, Fiji (MNHN, coll. HD, unpubl. data). Depth range 20-130 m (alive) (unpubl. data, coll. HD). Now also Austral Islands (new record), only a single valve at 558 m depth.

REMARKS

The present specimen is nearly similar to the type material from the China Sea, although the commarginal microsculpture is somewhat more delicate and more closely spaced.

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, Cryptopecten sp. A, external view of the right valve; B, Anguipecten lamberti (Souverbie, 1874), external view of the left valve; C, Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995, external view of the left valve; D, Anguipecten superbus (Sowerby II, 1842), external view of the right valve; E, Glorichlamys elegantissima (Deshayes, 1863), external view of the right valve; F, Gloripallium spiniferum, (Sowerby I, 1835), external view of the right valve; G, H, Mirapecten mirificus (Reeve, 1853), external views of the left and right valves.