Species Delectopecten fosterianus (Powell, 1933)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palliolum fosterianus Powell, A.W.B. 1933. Two new molluscs of the Pectinidae from 600 to 700 fathoms, four hundred miles west of New Plymouth. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 63: 370-372 [370, pl. 40, figs 6, 7].

 

Generic Combinations

• Delectopecten fosterianus (Powell, 1933). —
  Beu, A.G. 1970. Descriptions of new species and notes on taxonomy of New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Earth Sciences 7: 113-136 [117]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

East of southern Great Barrier Reef, QLD, to south of Esperance, WA: SW Pacific, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge to Kermadec Ridge

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope, marine, mud bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Taken live at 376-1568 m

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. & Beu, A.G. 2018. Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 70(2): 113-330 [169]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Marshall, B.A. 2008. The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca; Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae). Molluscan Research 28(1): 1-88 [49-50, figs 40A, B, D-F, 41]

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. (on CD)

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [56-58, pl. 2, figs 5, 7, 8]

 

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)
02-Apr-2020	PECTINOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815	25-Feb-2020	MODIFIED
23-Apr-2018	BIVALVIA	28-Mar-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Aug-2011	ADDED