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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Talochlamys (Genus)
> gemmulata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
=Pecten (Chlamys) suteri Hertlein, 1933
=Pecten gemmeus Reeve, 1853
=Pecten gemmulatus Reeve, 1853
=Pecten radiatus Hutton, 1873
=Pecten sibyllae G.B. Sowerby III, 1882
Images: Talochlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
Colour variations dredged in Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ. 40mm. © rights reserved
Colour variations dredged in Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ. 40mm. © rights reserved
Colour variations dredged in Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ. 40mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Pedinae (Subfamily)
> Talochlamys (Genus)
> gemmulata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
=Pecten (Chlamys) suteri Hertlein, 1933
=Pecten gemmeus Reeve, 1853
=Pecten gemmulatus Reeve, 1853
=Pecten radiatus Hutton, 1873
=Pecten sibyllae G.B. Sowerby III, 1882
Details: Talochlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Height 73mm, Width 68mm
Distribution:
King Bank, Three Kings, North, South, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands, and Mernoo Bank, from 0-695m
Type Data:
  • Stewart Island, NZ, (syntype of Pecten radiatus Hutton, 1873)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Dijkstra, H., Marshall, B.A. 2008 The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae), Molluscan Research, 28 (p.56)
  • Elliott, B.F. May/1994 Chlamys gemmulata, Poirieria, 17(1)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.378)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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