Mirapecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

Dijkstra, H. H. & Kilburn, R. N., 2001, The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea), African Invertebrates 42, pp. 263-321 : 282-283

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7910445

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7910075

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scientific name

Mirapecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
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Genus Mirapecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 View in CoL View at ENA

Mirapecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938: 84 View in CoL . Type species (OD): Mirapecten thaanumi Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 View in CoL (= Pecten mirificus Reeve, 1853 View in CoL ); Recent, Hawaii.

Somalipecten Waller, 1986: 41 View in CoL . Type species (OD): Somalipecten cranmerorum Waller, 1986 View in CoL ; Recent , off Somalia. Syn. n.

Remarks: Hertlein (1969: N366) treated Mirapecten as a subgenus of Semipallium [Jousseaume] Lamy, 1928, which he referred to the same suprageneric group as Decatopecten . Waller (1986: 40), followed by Vaught (1989: 119), considered Mirapecten as a full genus in the tribe Decatopectinini . Somalipecten was originally differentiated from Mirapecten by the presence in the latter taxon of a deep byssal notch throughout ontogeny and of well-developed scales on its radial plicae (or at least on the posterior plica of both valves). However even within different species of Mirapecten these characters vary, so that the byssal notch may be deep or only moderately deep, and scales range from well developed to absent.

Representative Recent species of Mirapecten are: M. rastellum (Lamarck, 1819) and M. mirificus (Reeve, 1853) from the tropical W and SW Pacific, M. spiceri ( Rehder, 1944) from the central Pacific, M. cranmerorum (Waller, 1986) from off Somalia, M. moluccensis Dijkstra, 1988 , from the tropical W. Pacific, M. tuberosus sp. n. (described herein) from the tropical and subtropical western Indian Ocean, and M. yaroni Dijkstra & Knudsen, 1998 , from the Red Sea region.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Pectinida

Family

Pectinidae

Loc

Mirapecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

Dijkstra, H. H. & Kilburn, R. N. 2001
2001
Loc

Mirapecten

DALL, W. H. & BARTSCH, P. & REHDER, H. A. 1938: 84
1938
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