Species Semipallium flavicans (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ostrea flavicans 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 tigris Lamarck, J.B. 1819. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(1) 343 pp. [Date published July 1819] [171].

 

Generic Combinations

• Semipallium flavicans (Linnaeus, 1758). —
  Dijkstra, H.H., Kilburn, R.N. 2001. The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea). African Invertebrates 42: 263-321 [297-298, fig. 35]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Murion Island (21°40'S) to Cassini Island (13°56'S), and offshore reefs (Seringapatam, Hibernia), WA, Cartier Reef, Timor Sea, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, and Marion Reef, QLD; Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3)

Ecological Descriptors

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

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to hard substrates

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H., Kilburn, R.N. 2001. The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea). African Invertebrates 42: 263-321 [297-298, fig. 35]

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 [264]

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 [240, pl. 192, figs 1-5]

 

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	30-Mar-2020	MODIFIED
		17-Aug-2011	ADDED