WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Talochlamys dichroa (Suter, 1909)

To Conchology (Talochlamys dichroa)

AphiaID

393589 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393589)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Talochlamys Iredale, 1929

Original name

Pecten (Chlamys) dichrous Suter, 1909

Synonymised names

Chlamys (Mimachlamys) taiaroa A. W. B. Powell, 1952 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Chlamys consociata E. A. Smith, 1915 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Pecten (Chlamys) dichrous Suter, 1909 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Pecten (Chlamys) dichrous Suter, 1909) Suter H. (1909). Description of new species and subspecies of New Zealand Mollusca, with notes on a few species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 253-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058460
page(s): 264 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range below littoral-bathyal

Depth range below littoral-bathyal [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Talochlamys dichroa (Suter, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=393589 on 2026-09-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-23 13:21:41Z

created

Dijkstra, Henk

2020-03-27 20:10:09Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Chlamys (Mimachlamys) taiaroa A. W. B. Powell, 1952) Powell, A. W. B. (1952). New Zealand molluscan systematics, with descriptions of new species. Part 1. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 169-185., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60717671
page(s): 169 [details]

original description (of Chlamys consociata E. A. Smith, 1915) Smith, E. A. (1915). Mollusca. Part I. - Gastropoda Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda. British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, Natural History Reports (Zoology). 2(4): 61-112, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/965528
page(s): 89, pl. 2, figs 1, 8. [details]

original description (of Pecten (Chlamys) dichrous Suter, 1909) Suter H. (1909). Description of new species and subspecies of New Zealand Mollusca, with notes on a few species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 253-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058460
page(s): 264 [details]

Other

additional source Dijkstra, H. H.; Marshall, B. A. (2008). The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae). Molluscan Research. 28 (1): 1-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/mr.28.1.1 [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]