African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cryptopecten nux (Reeve, 1853)

WoRMS taxon details

Cryptopecten nux (Reeve, 1853)

To GB Mollusca Types (Pecten guendolinae Melvill, 1888; Holotype; NMW.1955.158.00002)

AphiaID

394289 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394289)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cryptopecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938

Original name

Pecten nux Reeve, 1853

Synonymised names

Aequipecten nux (Reeve, 1853) · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Chlamys corymbiatus Hedley, 1909 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Chlamys smithi G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Corymbichlamys corymbiata (Hedley, 1909) · unaccepted

Cryptopecten guendolenae (Melvill, 1888) · unaccepted

Pecten (Aequipecten) corymbiatus (Hedley, 1909) · unaccepted

Pecten (Aequipecten) kikaiensis Nomura & Zinbô, 1934 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pecten guendolenae Melvill, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pecten hastingsii Melvill, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pecten nux Reeve, 1853 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Pecten nux Reeve, 1853) Reeve, L. A. (1852-1853). Monograph of the genus Pecten. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pl. 1-35 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 1-8, Nov. 1852; 9-12, Dec. 1852; 13-16, Feb. 1853; 17-20, Apr. 1853; 21-28, May 1853; 29-32, Jun. 1853; 33-35, Aug. 1853]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120260 [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range below littoral-bathyal

Depth range below littoral-bathyal [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cryptopecten nux (Reeve, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394289 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-05-01 17:29:59Z

created

Dijkstra, Henk

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pecten nux Reeve, 1853) Reeve, L. A. (1852-1853). Monograph of the genus Pecten. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pl. 1-35 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 1-8, Nov. 1852; 9-12, Dec. 1852; 13-16, Feb. 1853; 17-20, Apr. 1853; 21-28, May 1853; 29-32, Jun. 1853; 33-35, Aug. 1853]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120260 [details]

original description (of Pecten hastingsii Melvill, 1888) Melvill, J. C. (1888). Descriptions of six new species of Pecten. Journal of Conchology. 5: 279-281, pl. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31653925
page(s): 279-280, pl. 2, fig. 7 [details]

original description (of Pecten guendolenae Melvill, 1888) Melvill, J. C. (1888). Descriptions of six new species of Pecten. Journal of Conchology. 5: 279-281, pl. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31653925
page(s): 279, pl. 2, fig. 6 [details]

original description (of Chlamys smithi G. B. Sowerby III, 1908) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1908). Description of eight new species of marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 16-19, pl. 1., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058203 [details]

original description (of Chlamys corymbiatus Hedley, 1909) Hedley, C. (1909). Mollusca from the Hope Islands, North Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 34: 420-466, pl. 36-44., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6381403
page(s): 423, pl. 36 figs 1-4 [details]

original description (of Pecten (Aequipecten) kikaiensis Nomura & Zinbô, 1934 †) Nomura, S.; Zinbô, N. (1934). Marine Mollusca from the “Ryûkyû Limestone” of Kikai-zima, Ryûkyû Group. The Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, second series (Geology). 16(2): 109-164, pl. 5., available online at https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=10698&file_id=18&file_no=1
page(s): 153 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

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 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]

additional source Dijkstra, H. H.; Kilburn, R. N. (2001). The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea). African Invertebrates. 42: 263-321., available online at http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/355603
page(s): 310 [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 Raines B. & Huber M. (2012) Biodiversity quadrupled - Revision of Easter Island and Sala y Gomez bivalves. Zootaxa 3217: 1-106. [29 Feb. 2012], available online at http://www.zora.uzh.ch/61152/1/12_Zootaxa.pdf
page(s): 35 [details]