Mirapecten, Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

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 : 201

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5305923

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87AD-F841-361C-FDD8-2E8CFAF6FD88

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Mirapecten
status

 

Key to species of Mirapecten View in CoL from Australia

1 Shell c. 40 mm high, roundly triangular, thin, posteriorly oblique, lv almost flat, rv inflated, 4–5 distinct unevenly spaced radial plicae (obsolete on some specimens) with variable scales on lv, 7–9 (4 bifurcated) radial plicae with variable scales (or lacking scales) on rv ................................................................................. M. mirificus View in CoL

—— Shell with nodulous radial plicae .............................................................................................. 2

2 Shell c. 35 mm high, subcircular, radially undulated, weakly inflated, almost equivalve and equilateral, valves with 8–9 nodulous radial plicae, secondary radial riblets in interspaces .................................................... M. moluccensis View in CoL

—— Shell with evenly spaced radial plicae ...................................................................................... 3

3 Shell c. 40 mm high, subcircular, lv flattened, rv more inflated, almost equivalve and equilateral, valves with 7–9 evenly spaced radial plicae, obsolete or with widely spaced curved scales ................................... M. rastellum View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Pectinida

Family

Pectinidae

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