Species Juxtamusium maldivensis (Smith, 1903)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pecten maldivensis Smith, E.A. 1903. Marine Mollusca. (pp. 589-630, pls. XXXV-XXXVI) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : University Press Vol. II(Part II) pp. 589–698, pls. XXXV-XLVIII). [622, pl. 36, figs 19-20].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1903.9.17.49, Indian Ocean, Maldive Islands, 1-44 fathoms [=2-80 m].

 

Generic Combinations

• Juxtamusium maldivensis (Smith, 1903). —
  Sharabati, D. 1984. Red Sea Shells. London : KPI Limited 128 pp. [pl. 44, fig. 4-4a]
• Chlamys (Juxtamusium) maldivensis (Smith, 1903). —
  Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [76]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Fraser Island, QLD, and off Cartier Island, Timor Sea; Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral rubble, intertidal, marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. 1998. Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae: Propeamussiidae) from Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea. Molluscan Research 19(1): 11-52 [23, pl. 3, figs 1-3]

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 [200]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Knudsen, J. 1998. Some Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae) of the Red Sea. Molluscan Research 19(2): 43-104, 10 pls [64, pl. 5, fig. 22]

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.

Oliver, P.G. 1992. Bivalved Seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden : Verlage Christa Hemmen 330 pp. [76, pl. 12, fig. 5]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [126, pl. 74, figs 1, 3; pl. 75, 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. [60, pl. 26, 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