Species Propeamussium alcocki (Smith, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amussium alcocki Smith, E.A. 1894. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", Commander C.F. Oldham, R.N. - Series II., No. 10. Report on some Mollusca dredged in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 14(81): 157-174 366-368, pls 3-5 [172, pl. 5, figs 15, 16].

 

Generic Combinations

• Propeamussium alcocki (Smith, 1894). —
  Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [64]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Gulf of Aden to Tonga. Unpublished records from Swains Reef and off the NW coast of WA (Dijkstra & Beu, pers. comm.)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope, marine, mud bottom–marine, sand bottom marine.

 

General References

Dijkstra, H.H. 1995. Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. pp. 9-73 in Bouchet, P. (ed). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires de Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 167: 1-654 [13, figs 1-8, 133-137]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Maestrati, P. 2008. New species and new records of deep-water Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the South Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 196: 77-113 [78-79]

Dijkstra, H.H. & Marshall, B.A. 1997. Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) of Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands. Molluscan Research 18(1): 73-114, pls 1-13 [74]

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.

Rombouts, A. 1991. Guidebook to Pecten Shells - Recent Pectinidae and Propeamussiidae of the World. Bathurst, Australia : Crawford House Press 157 pp., 29 pls. [64]

 

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)
		17-Feb-2011	ADDED