MolluscaBase - Delectopecten alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1904)

WoRMS taxon details

Delectopecten alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1904)

AphiaID

391788 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391788)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Delectopecten R. B. Stewart, 1930

Original name

Pecten alcocki E. A. Smith, 1904

Synonymised names

Pecten alcocki E. A. Smith, 1904 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Pecten alcocki E. A. Smith, 1904) Smith, E. A. (1904). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", Commander T.H. Heming, R.N., ser. 3 (1). On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 14: 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733743
page(s): 13. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Indian part of the Laccadive Sea

type locality contained in Indian part of the Laccadive Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range bathyal

Depth range bathyal [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Delectopecten alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391788 on 2025-04-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-19 21:01:02Z

created

Dijkstra, Henk

2011-10-01 08:49:20Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pecten alcocki E. A. Smith, 1904) Smith, E. A. (1904). Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", Commander T.H. Heming, R.N., ser. 3 (1). On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 7, 14: 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733743
page(s): 13. [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Dijkstra, H. H. (1995). Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 167: 9-73., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58833137 [details]

redescription Dijkstra, H. H. (2013). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica. 10: 1-108 [6 April 2013]., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/504769 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Dijkstra, H. H. & Janssen, R. (2013). Bathyal and abyssal Pectinoidea from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 142(2): 181-214. [20 December 2013]. [details]