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Decatopecten G. B. Sowerby II, 1839 
AphiaID: 206456

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Pectinidae (Family) > Pectininae (Subfamily) > Decatopectinini (Tribe)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ostrea plica Linnaeus, 1758 (type by monotypy)
Parent Decatopectinini Waller, 1986
Synonymised
taxa		  Comptopallium Iredale, 1939
 Decadopecten Swainson, 1840
 Pecten (Comptopallium)
 Pecten (Pallium)
Sources  redescription: Dijkstra H.H. (2013) Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica 10: 1-108. [6 April 2013] [details]

from synonym: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Decatopecten amiculum (Philippi, 1851)
Species Decatopecten plica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Decatopecten radula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Decatopecten strangei (Reeve, 1852)
Environment marine
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Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206456
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2001-12-09 13:54:23Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-03-22 08:00:43Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-04-26 20:01:08Z  changed  Dijkstra, Henk
2009-05-02 14:46:27Z  changed  Dijkstra, Henk
2009-05-08 13:14:28Z  changed  Dijkstra, Henk
2009-10-07 06:56:56Z  changed  Dijkstra, Henk
2013-04-06 20:43:12Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Dijkstra, H. (2013). Decatopecten G. B. Sowerby II, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206456 on 2013-05-25
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