General References

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 [70-72]

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.

Puslednik, L. & Serb, J.M. 2008. Molecular phylogenetics of the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) and effect of increased taxon sampling and outgroup selection on tree topology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48: 1178-1188

History of changes

• Mesopeplum Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [162].

  Type species:

   Mesopeplum caroli Iredale, 1929 by original designation.
• Dendopecten Hertlein, L.G. 1936. Three new sections and rectifications of some specific names in the Pectinidae. Nautilus 50(1): 25-27 [26].

  Type species:

   Pecten dendyi Hutton, 1902 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

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.

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [11]

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

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N366] (as subgenus of Semipallium)

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [18]

History of changes

• Pecten convexum Quoy, J.M.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1835. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829. Paris : J. Tastu 954 pp., atlas, 107 pls. [443].
• Mesopeplum triggi Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1938. The Molluscs of South Australia. Part 1. The Pelecypoda. Adelaide : Government Printer 314 pp. [Handbook of the flora and fauna of South Australia] [97, fig. 83].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, South West Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Mesopeplum convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [30, pl. 13, fig. 79]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 254 m

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [101, fig. 87]

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.

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [30, pl. 13, fig. 79]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [61, pl. 28, fig. 5] (pl. 28, fig. 5 as Mesopeplum triggi, pl. 22, fig. 3 as Mesopeplum convexum)

History of changes

• Chlamys fenestrata Hedley, C. 1901. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 721-732 [20 May 1901] [730, pl. 48, figs 17-19].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.8971 dry, Sydney, Port Jackson, off Balls Head, New South Wales, Australia [33°51‘0‘S 151°11‘31.2‘E].
• Pecten hedleyi Dautzenberg, 1901 [introduced as a new name for Chlamys fenestrata Hedley, 1901, not C. fenestratus Forbes. However, presently this is unjustified].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Ocean Beach, Point Nepean.
• Mesopeplum caroli Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [162, pl. 38, figs 7-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.170894 dry, off Montague Island, New South Wales, Australia, 55-60 fathoms.

Generic Combinations

• Mesopeplum fenestratum (Hedley, 1901). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [30, pl. 13, fig. 78]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Great Barrier Reef, QLD (22°30'S 152°0'E) to SW of Point Cloates, WA (23°25'S 113°14'E)

Australian Endemic.

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, muddy sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Offshore, to 54 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 [173]

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)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [11]

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [30, pl. 13, fig. 78]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [84-86, pl. 23, figs 1-5]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [61, pl. 22, fig. 4]

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [281] (as Mesopeplum caroli) (Carol's Scallop)

Coleman, N. 1981. What shell is that? Sydney : Lansdowne Press, Sydney 308 pp. [280] (as Semipallium fenestratum) (Windowed Fan Shell)

History of changes

• Palliolum Monterosato, T.A.di 1884. Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie Mediterranee. Palermo : Stabilamento Tipigrafico Verzi 152 pp. [5].

  Type species:

   Pecten incomparibilis Monterosato, 1828 by subsequent designation (proposed as a section of Pecten).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Crosse, H. 1885. Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee, pel Marchese di Monterosato. Journal de Conchyliologie 33: 139-142 [139-142]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Southgate, P.C. 2000. A new living scallop (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the southwestern Pacific. Molluscan Research 20(2): 13-18, figs 1-7 [14]

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.

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N354]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [16]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [48-49]

History of changes

• Palliolum minutulum Dijkstra, H.H. & Southgate, P.C. 2000. A new living scallop (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the southwestern Pacific. Molluscan Research 20(2): 13-18, figs 1-7 [14, figs 1-7].

  Type data:

   Holotype New Caledonia, coral reef lagoon off Koumac, between mainland and Infernet Reef.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lizard Island (14°39'S) to off Townsville (18°41'S), QLD; western Pacific, from Indonesia to Fiji

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among algae, 2-100 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 [170]

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]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Southgate, P.C. 2000. A new living scallop (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from the southwestern Pacific. Molluscan Research 20(2): 13-18, figs 1-7 [14, figs 1-7]

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 [72, pl. 5, figs 1-3]

History of changes

• Pseudamussium Mörch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra et Gadea, Comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Danebrogici in prima classe et ordinis tertii eques. Fasciculus Secundus. Acephala, Annulata Cirripeda, Echinodermata. Hafniae : Ludovici Kleini Vol. 2 74 pp. + 2 unnumbered pages. [Date published April] [59].

  Type species:

   Pecten septemradiatus Müller, 1776 (SD, Opinion, 714, 1964, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 21(5): 355) by designation under Plenary Powers.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Atlantic and south eastern Australia

IMCRA

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

General References

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 [70-72]

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.

History of changes

• Pecten challengeri Smith, E.A. 1891. Descriptions of new species of shells from the 'Challenger' Expedition. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891: 436–445 [443, pl. 35, fig. 25].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1889.2.13.1-2 (13 June 1874, HMS Challenger stn 164B), off New South Wales, Australia, 750 m [34°13'S, 151°38'E].

Generic Combinations

• Chlamys (Chlamys) challengeri (E.A Smith, 1891). —
  Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [20, pl. 8, fig. 46]
• Veprichlamys challengeri (E.A. Smith, 1891). —
  Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [248, 249, pl. 197, fig. 4]
• Chlamys (Veprichlamys) challengeri (E.A. Smith, 1891). —
  Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [34]
• Pseudamussium challengeri (E.A. Smith, 1891) [new combination]. —
  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 [71, figs 59, 60]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

From east of Newcastle, NSW, to south of Albany, WA; Tasman Sea, New Zealand

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine, mud.

Extra Ecological Information

In foraminiferal ooze, 500-1000 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 [172]

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 [71-72, figs 59, 60]

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 in Veprichamys)

Lamprell, K. & Whitehead, T. 1992. Bivalves of Australia. Bathurst, New South Wales : Crawford House Press Vol. 1 xiv 182 pp. [20, pl. 8, fig. 46]

Raines, B.K. & Poppe, G.T. 2006. A Conchological Iconography. The family Pectinidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. pp. 1-402, pls 1-320 [248, 249, pl. 197, fig. 4]

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [34]

History of changes