New species and new records of deep-water Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the South Pacific

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Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • V. Héros
  • R.H. Cowie
  • P. Bouchet
Book title Tropical deep-sea benthos
ISBN
  • 9782856536148
Series Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 25
Pages (from-to) 77-113
Number of pages 805
Publisher Paris: Publications scientifiques du muséum
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Abstract
Fifty-two deep-water species of Pectinoidea (37 Propeamussiidae, 1 Entoliidae, 14 Pectinidae) are listed from Norfolk Ridge (11 species), Loyalty Islands (4 species), Fiji Islands (30 species), Tonga (26 species), Solomon Islands (26 species) and the Marquesas archipelago (8 species). All species from Fiji, Tonga and the Marquesas are new records and six species of Propeamussiidae are new to science: Propeamussium boucheti (Fiji and Tonga), Parvamussium biformatum (Solomons), Parvamussium lozoueti (Fiji and Tonga), Parvamussium marquesanum (Marquesas), Parvamussium polynesianum (Marquesas) and Similipecten herosae (Tonga). Two new combinations (Hyalopecten tydemani, Talochlamys gladysiae) are introduced.
Document type Chapter
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