Cryptopecten, 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 : 299

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.5305976

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A87AD-F8A3-36FE-FDCD-2E8CFAF7FE1D

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scientific name

Cryptopecten
status

 

Key to species of Cryptopecten View in CoL from Australia

1 Shell c. 30 mm high, thin, almost circular, weakly inflated, rv more convex than lv, weakly prosocline, auricles unequal, valves with 17–20 squamose, bi-vesicular radial plicae, byssal fasciole narrow ........................................................................................................... C. bullatus View in CoL

—— Shell with 18–22 vesicular-sculptured radial plicae .................................................................. 2

2 Shell c. 20 mm high, solid, circular to subcircular, moderately to strongly inflated, rv more convex than lv, auricles highly unequal, valves with 18–22 evenly spaced, vesicular-sculptured radial plicae, tripartite when worn, byssal fasciole wide .................................................. C. nux View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Bivalvia

Order

Pectinida

Family

Pectinidae