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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)
> Pascahinnites (Genus)
> coruscans (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
=Pecten coruscans Hinds, 1845
=Semipallium coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
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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)
> Pascahinnites (Genus)
> coruscans (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Chlamys coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
=Pecten coruscans Hinds, 1845
=Semipallium coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
Details: Pascahinnites coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
Size/Grows to:
Height 21mm
Distribution:
Tropical and subtropical Indo-West Pacific, Kermadec Islands, from 0-46m
Type Data:
  • 13 metres, Port Anna Maria (Taioha'e), Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, South Pacific Ocean, (lectotype of Pecten coruscans Hinds, 1845)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-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.51)
  • Dijkstra, H., Kilburn, R.N. 2001 The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea), African Invertebrates, 42 (p.294)
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.212)
  • Dijkstra, H., Marshall, B.A. 1997 Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae: Pectinidae) of Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and the Kermadec Islands, Molluscan Research, 18 (p.99)

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