A new species of Pecten (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from northern Western Australia
Duncan, P.F. (2012). A new species of Pecten (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from northern Western Australia. Moll. Res. 32(1): 21-26
In: Molluscan Research. Malacological Society of Australasia: Sydney. ISSN 1323-5818; e-ISSN 1448-6067, more
|   |
| Keywords |
Classification > Taxonomy
Taxa > Species > New taxa > New species
Pecten dijkstrai Duncan & G. Wilson, 2012 [WoRMS]
Australia, Western Australia [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Author keywords |
|
| Abstract |
Pecten dijkstrai n. sp. is described from several localities in northern Western Australia. It represents a new, rare example of a tropical member of the genus Pecten. The new species most closely resembles P. excavatus Anton, 1838, previously reported from southern Japan to Indonesia, differing in its smaller size, greater length (antero-posterior dimension), more numerous, lower radial costae and slightly paler colouration. |
|
