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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
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:
North and South Island, and Chatham Rise. Trawled from 350-1550 metres
Geographical Range:
ACFM
Notes:
Marine
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.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

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Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil