MolluscaBase taxon details
Delectopecten vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893)
391795 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391795)
accepted
Species
Cyclopecten (Delectopecten) randolphi (Dall, 1897) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cyclopecten argenteus F. R. Bernard, 1978 · unaccepted (synonym)
Delectopecten randolphi (Dall, 1897) · unaccepted
Delectopecten randolphi tillamookensis (R. Arnold, 1906) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Delectopecten vancouverensis fernandoensis (Hertlein, 1925) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pecten (Pseudamusium) arces Dall, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pecten (Pseudamusium) randolphi (Dall, 1897) · unaccepted
Pecten (Pseudamusium) randolphi var. tillamookensis R. Arnold, 1906 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis Whiteaves, 1893 · unaccepted (original combination)
Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis fernandoensis Hertlein, 1925 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pecten randolphi Dall, 1897 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (junior synonym)
Pseudamusium arces (Dall, 1913) · unaccepted
- Subspecies Delectopecten vancouverensis sanjuanensis (B. L. Clark & R. Arnold, 1923) †
- Subspecies Delectopecten vancouverensis vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893)
- Subspecies Delectopecten vancouverensis fernandoensis (Hertlein, 1925) † accepted as Delectopecten vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis Whiteaves, 1893) Whiteaves, J. F. (1893). Notes on some marine Invertebrata from the coast of British Columbia. <em>The Ottawa Naturalist.</em> 7: 133-137, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1616034
page(s): 133, pl. 1 figs 1-1a [details]
page(s): 133, pl. 1 figs 1-1a [details]
Type locality contained in Vancouver Island
type locality contained in Vancouver Island [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Depth range lower littoral-abyssal
Depth range lower littoral-abyssal [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Delectopecten vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391795 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Pecten randolphi Dall, 1897) Dall, W. H. (1897). New west American shells. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 11(8): 85-86., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1774584
page(s): 86 [details]
original description (of Cyclopecten argenteus F. R. Bernard, 1978) Bernard F.R. (1978). New bivalve Mollusca, subclass Pteriomorpha, from the Northeastern Pacific. <em>Venus.</em> 37: 61-75. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) arces Dall, 1913) Dall, W. H. (1913). Diagnoses of new shells from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 45(2002): 587-597., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7307171
page(s): 592 [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis Whiteaves, 1893) Whiteaves, J. F. (1893). Notes on some marine Invertebrata from the coast of British Columbia. <em>The Ottawa Naturalist.</em> 7: 133-137, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1616034
page(s): 133, pl. 1 figs 1-1a [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis fernandoensis Hertlein, 1925 †) Hertlein L.G. (1925). New species of marine fossil Mollusca from western North America. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 24(2): 39-46, pls. 3, 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34154518
page(s): 43, pl. 4, figs 6, 7 [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) randolphi var. tillamookensis R. Arnold, 1906) Arnold, R. (1906). The Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 47: 1-264, 53 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13754
page(s): 139, pl. 48, fig. 3, 3a [details]
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 Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [details]
additional source Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. <i>Deep-Sea Research II</i> 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.08.004 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
page(s): 86 [details]
original description (of Cyclopecten argenteus F. R. Bernard, 1978) Bernard F.R. (1978). New bivalve Mollusca, subclass Pteriomorpha, from the Northeastern Pacific. <em>Venus.</em> 37: 61-75. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) arces Dall, 1913) Dall, W. H. (1913). Diagnoses of new shells from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 45(2002): 587-597., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7307171
page(s): 592 [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis Whiteaves, 1893) Whiteaves, J. F. (1893). Notes on some marine Invertebrata from the coast of British Columbia. <em>The Ottawa Naturalist.</em> 7: 133-137, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1616034
page(s): 133, pl. 1 figs 1-1a [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) vancouverensis fernandoensis Hertlein, 1925 †) Hertlein L.G. (1925). New species of marine fossil Mollusca from western North America. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 24(2): 39-46, pls. 3, 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34154518
page(s): 43, pl. 4, figs 6, 7 [details]
original description (of Pecten (Pseudamusium) randolphi var. tillamookensis R. Arnold, 1906) Arnold, R. (1906). The Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California. <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 47: 1-264, 53 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13754
page(s): 139, pl. 48, fig. 3, 3a [details]
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 Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [details]
additional source Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. <i>Deep-Sea Research II</i> 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.08.004 [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Conchology (Delectopecten vancouverensis)
To Malacopics (Delectopecten vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893) Canada, British Columbia, Gibsons, by dredging, at 30 m depth, collected 1979, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pecten randolphi Syntype USNM 107749) (from synonym Pecten randolphi Dall, 1897)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pseudamusium arces Lectotype USNM 267169) (from synonym Pseudamusium arces (Dall, 1913))
To ITIS
To Malacopics (Delectopecten vancouverensis (Whiteaves, 1893) Canada, British Columbia, Gibsons, by dredging, at 30 m depth, collected 1979, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pecten randolphi Syntype USNM 107749) (from synonym Pecten randolphi Dall, 1897)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pseudamusium arces Lectotype USNM 267169) (from synonym Pseudamusium arces (Dall, 1913))
To ITIS
