Subspecies Decatopecten radula radula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ostrea radula Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [698].
• Pecten argenteus Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Pecten. pls 13-35 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [sp. 168, pl. 35, fig. 168].
• Comptopallium pauciplicatum Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [360].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C.41560 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia [14°40‘1.2‘S 145°28‘1.2‘E]; AM C.170896 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Low Islands, Queensland, Australia [16°22‘58.8‘S 145°34‘1.2‘E]; AM C.53646 dry, Great Barrier Reef, Michaelmas Cay, Queensland, Australia [16°36‘0‘S 145°58‘58.8‘E]; AM C.10052 dry, Palm Islands, Queensland, Australia [18°40‘1.2‘S 146°33‘0‘E]; AM C.19175 dry, Stradbroke Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia [27°34‘58.8‘S 153°28‘1.2‘E]; AM C.29786 dry, beach, Torres Strait, Murray Island, Queensland, Australia [9°55‘58.8‘S 144°4‘1.2‘E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Comptopallium radula (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [28, pl. 12, fig. 74]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

From off Onslow, WA (21°38'S), to Moreton Bay, QLD (27°35'S); possibly south to Fremantle on the west coast; Tropical, Indo-west Pacific (Red Sea, Japan, Samoa)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, intertidal, marine, muddy sand, rocks, seagrass.

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. 1990. Three new pectinacean species from the Indonesian Archipelago collected during the Siboga expedition (1899-1900), with additional information and corrections on the previous report (Mollusca: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae). Beaufortia 40(1): 1-14 [12]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [106, pl. 50, figs 1-7; pl. 51, figs 1-3, 5-6; pl. 295, fig. 2]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [35, pl. 13, fig. 4]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [156] (Flat-ribbed Scallop)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
15-Feb-2011		15-Feb-2011	MOVED
		18-Jan-2011	MODIFIED