Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853

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 : 171

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5305897

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87AD-F823-367E-FC65-2B4DFA8BF87A

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scientific name

Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853
status

 

Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853 View in CoL

Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853: 59 View in CoL . Type species (ICZN Opinion 714, 1964): Pecten septemradiatus O. F. Müller, 1776 View in CoL (= Ostrea peslutrae Linnaeus, 1771 ; Dijkstra, 1999: 427); Recent, eastern Atlantic.

Diagnosis. Palliolini with weakly inflated, fragile to sturdy, subcircular to circular shell, up to c. 50 mm in height; valves with plicae or costae, sculptured with delicate to rather prominent radial riblets and/or radial striae, and antimarginal microsculpture; left valve pre-radial microsculpture of fine, closely spaced commarginal lirae only. Auricles somewhat unequal in size. Byssal notch shallow, functional ctenolium weak (Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008: 70). Internal rib carinae lacking. Resilial teeth present, dorsal teeth weak or lacking, hinge surface with delicate, irregularly formed, transverse grooves.

Distribution. Miocene–Recent. Eastern Atlantic and southeastern Australia, sublittoral to bathyal.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Pectinida

Family

Pectinidae

Loc

Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853

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

Pseudamussium Mörch, 1853: 59

Morch, O 1853: 59
1853
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