Species Excellichlamys spectabilis (Reeve, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pecten spectabilis Reeve, L.A. 1853. Monograph of the genus Pecten. pls 13-35 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve Vol. 8. [pl. 29, sp. 128].

  Type data:

   Holotype UMZC 1461, locality unknown.
• Pecten parvus Sowerby, G.B. 1st 1835. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 3: 4-110 [110] [junior homonym; not Pecten parvus Costa, 1778].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Lord Hood's Island, Pacific Ocean.

 

Generic Combinations

• Excellichlamys spectabilis (Reeve, 1853). —
  Sharabati, D. 1984. Red Sea Shells. London : KPI Limited 128 pp. [pl. 29]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Dampier Archipelago to Cassini Island and offshore reefs, WA, and Lizard Island to off Townsville, QLD; Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral rubble, marine, rocks, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to hard substrates

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. 1998. Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae: Propeamussiidae) from Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea. Molluscan Research 19(1): 11-52 [18]

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 [192]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Knudsen, J. 1998. Some Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae) of the Red Sea. Molluscan Research 19(2): 43-104, 10 pls

Dijkstra, H.H. & Moolenbeek, R.G. 2008. Some Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussidae and Pectinidae) from the Berau Islands (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). Venus 67(1-2): 15-26 [22-23]

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)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [30, pl. 13, fig. 76]

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [77, pl. 14, fig. 1]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [110, pl. 55, figs 1-7]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [40, pl. 14, fig. 7]

 

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
15-Feb-2011		15-Feb-2011	MOVED
		18-Jan-2011	MODIFIED