Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Maestrati, Philippe, 2010, Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia), Zoosystema 32 (2), pp. 333-358 : 352

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/z2010n2a6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4521120
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scientific name	Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995
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Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995 ( Fig. 5C View FIG )

Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995b: 17 (nomen novum for Pecten aurantiacus Adams & Reeve, 1850 , non Pecten aurantiacus J. de C. Sowerby, 1820, nec Defrance, 1825).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China Sea. Holotype (spm) ( BMNH 1950.11.14.8).

Tubuai. BENTHAUS, stn DW 1957, 23°19’S, 149°29’W, 558-1000 m, 1 lv.

DISTRIBUTION. — Réunion Island, Thailand, southern Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Coral Sea, Fiji (MNHN, coll. HD, unpubl. data). Depth range 20-130 m (alive) (unpubl. data, coll. HD). Now also Austral Islands (new record), only a single valve at 558 m depth.

REMARKS

The present specimen is nearly similar to the type material from the China Sea, although the commarginal microsculpture is somewhat more delicate and more closely spaced.

References

DEFRANCE M. J. L. 1825. - Peigne, in CUVIER F. (ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [...] 38. Levrault, Paris, Strasbourg: 251 - 267.

DIJKSTRA H. H. 1995 b. - Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). 1. Anguipecten picturatus nom. nov. Basteria 59: 15 - 19.

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, Cryptopecten sp. A, external view of the right valve; B, Anguipecten lamberti (Souverbie, 1874), external view of the left valve; C, Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995, external view of the left valve; D, Anguipecten superbus (Sowerby II, 1842), external view of the right valve; E, Glorichlamys elegantissima (Deshayes, 1863), external view of the right valve; F, Gloripallium spiniferum, (Sowerby I, 1835), external view of the right valve; G, H, Mirapecten mirificus (Reeve, 1853), external views of the left and right valves.