Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia)

Henk H. Dijkstra; Philippe Maestrati

doi:10.5252/z2010n2a6

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1 June 2010 Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia)

Henk H. Dijkstra, Philippe Maestrati

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Zoosystema, 32(2):333-358 (2010). https://doi.org/10.5252/z2010n2a6

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Dijkstra H. H. & Maestrati P. 2010. — Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia). Zoosystema 32 (2):333-358.

Twenty-nine species of Pectinoidea (12 Propeamussiidae, 1 Entoliidae, 16 Pectinidae) are recorded from the Austral Islands, the southernmost archipelago of French Polynesia. One genus (Pectinidae: Lamellipecten n. gen.) and five species (Propeamussiidae: Parvamussium australanum n. sp., Cyclochlamys australensis n. sp., Cyclopecten ambiguus n. sp.; Pectinidae: Lamellipecten aduncus n. gen., n. sp., Mimachlamys erycina n. sp.) are new to science, and most others are new records for the archipelago. The near-shore fauna of Rapa has 12 species of Pectinidae, and half of these have narrow-range distributions. Such a remarkably high level of marine endemism is shared by other mollusc taxa on Rapa.

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Henk H. Dijkstra and Philippe Maestrati "Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia)," Zoosystema 32(2), 333-358, (1 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.5252/z2010n2a6

Received: 16 February 2009; Accepted: 1 January 2010; Published: 1 June 2010

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