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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PALLIOLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Palliolinae (Subfamily)
> Mesopeplum (Genus)
> convexum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dendopecten Hertlein, 1936
=Mesopeplum (Borehamia) Beu, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Mesopeplum (Mesopeplum) Iredale, 1929 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Pallium convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
=Pallium kapitiensis Mestayer, 1929
=Pecten (Dentipecten) vellicatus Hutton, 1873
=Pecten convexus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Pecten roseopunctatus Reeve, 1853
Images: Mesopeplum convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
Living in Scallop Beds, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 41mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PECTINIDAE: PALLIOLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Pteriomorphia (Subclass)
> Pectinida (Order)
> Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
> Pectinidae (Family)
> Palliolinae (Subfamily)
> Mesopeplum (Genus)
> convexum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Dendopecten Hertlein, 1936
=Mesopeplum (Borehamia) Beu, 1978 accepted, alternate representation
=Mesopeplum (Mesopeplum) Iredale, 1929 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Pallium convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
=Pallium kapitiensis Mestayer, 1929
=Pecten (Dentipecten) vellicatus Hutton, 1873
=Pecten convexus Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
=Pecten roseopunctatus Reeve, 1853
Details: Mesopeplum convexum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)
Size/Grows to:
Width 55mm, Height 50mm
Distribution:
Middlesex and King Banks, Three Kings Islands, off Cape Reinga, north-eastern and south-western North Island, northern and southern South Island, Stewart, Snares and Chatham Islands and Mernoo Bank, from 0-274m
Type Data:
  • Off Kapiti Island, NZ, (holotype of Pallium kapitiensis Mestayer, 1929)
Notes:
Marine, Native - 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.72)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.377)

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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