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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: CAMPTONECTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Camptonectinae (Subfamily)
> Delectopecten (Genus)
> fosterianus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Palliorum (Delectopecten) Stewart, 1920
=Pecten (Delectopecten) Stewart, 1920
Synonymised Names:
=Palliolum fosterianum Powell, 1933 (original combination)
Images: Delectopecten fosterianus (Powell, 1933)
On deep sea cable, approx. 1100 metres, W of New Plymouth, NZ. 16mm. © rights reserved
Collected 13 Aug 1989, NW of Chatham Islands, NZ (M.100711). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: CAMPTONECTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Camptonectinae (Subfamily)
> Delectopecten (Genus)
> fosterianus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Palliorum (Delectopecten) Stewart, 1920
=Pecten (Delectopecten) Stewart, 1920
Synonymised Names:
=Palliolum fosterianum Powell, 1933 (original combination)
Details: Delectopecten fosterianus (Powell, 1933)
Size/Grows to:
Height 19mm, Width 18mm
Distribution:
West Norfolk Ridge, Three Kings Rise, E of North Cape, Kermadec Ridge, western and south-eastern North Island, north-eastern and western South Island, Challenger Plateau, Auckland Islands and Chatham Rise, from 376-1568m
Type Data:
  • 1100-1280 metres, W of New Plymouth, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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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.49)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.379)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 Two new Molluscs of the Pectinidae from 600-700 Fathoms, Four Hundred Miles West of New Plymouth, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 63 (p.370) Original Description

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