Published June 30, 2012 | Version v1
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Decatopecten radula

  • 1. Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity (NCB Naturalis), Department of Marine Zoology, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands) henk. dijkstra @ ncbnaturalis. nl
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, UMR 7138, case postale 51, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) maestrat @ mnhn. fr

Description

Decatopecten radula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ostrea radula Linnaeus, 1758: 698.

Decatopecten radula radula – Raines & Poppe 2006: 106, pl. 50, figs 1-7; pl. 51, figs 1-3, 5, 6; pl. 295, fig. 2 (references, type data, original and additional descriptions, distribution).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — “ O. Indico ”, lectotype spm (UUZM), designated by Dijkstra (1999: 403).

Vanuatu. SANTO 2006, stn DR11, 15°36.6’S, 167°10.1’E, 6-24 m, 1 spm. — Stn VM24, 15°35.2’S, 167°59.4’E, intertidal, 1 lv. — Stn VM35, 15°29.4’S, 167°15.2’E, intertidal, 2 spms. — Stn NS37, 15°31.4’S, 167°09.8’E, 2-3 m, 1 lv. — Stn DR41, 15°28.8’S, 167°15.2’E, 5-20 m, 1 spm. — Stn FR53, 15°42.7’S, 167°15.1’E, 7 m, 1 spm. — Stn DR84, 15°43.4’S, 167°15.0’E, 6 m, 2 spms.

DISTRIBUTION. — Eastern India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, Tonga and Samoa (ZMA, unpublished data), from the intertidal zone to 36 m depth. Live taken in the intertidal zone to depths of 7 m.

REMARKS

Geographical morphotypes will be discussed in a forthcoming monograph on the Australian Pectinoidea (Dijkstra & Beu in prep.).

Notes

Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Maestrati, Philippe, 2012, Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae n. fam., Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Vanuatu Archipelago, pp. 389-408 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 404, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a12, http://zenodo.org/record/5165513

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UUZM
Family
Pectinidae
Genus
Decatopecten
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pectinida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
radula
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Decatopecten radula (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2012

References

  • LINNAEUS C. 1758. - Systema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, iii + 824 p.
  • RAINES B. K. & POPPE G. T. 2006. - A Conchological Iconography. The Family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 402 p. + 320 pls.
  • DIJKSTRA H. H. 1999. - Type specimens of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) described by Linnaeus (1758 - 1771). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 125: 383 - 443.