Dear Henk

Welcome to Conch-L. Thank you for your thorough reply to Linda's
question--even though it destroyed three lots in my collection (pelseneeri
and curtisiana). I hope that we can learn further from your knowledge of
Pectinidae which I find fascinating but utterly confusing.

Starting with Vaught's classification updated with whatever papers I could
get my hands on, I have a list of 43 "valid" genera for Pectinidae, but it
does not contain Mimachlamys. When or where did that come back?


09:05 AM 2/2/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Linda,
>
>The original spelling is: Pecten cloacatus Reeve, 1853, now placed in
>Mimachlamys: Mimachlamys cloacata (Reeve, 1853) and a senior synonym of the
>following species: Pecten valdecostatus Melvill, 1888, Pecten (Chlamys)
>pelseneeri Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912 (nom. nov. of Pecten rugosus G.B.
>Sowerby 2nd, 1842, not of Lamarck), and Mimachlamys curtisiana Iredale,
>1939. The present species is living littorally on soft sediments throughout
>the western and southwestern Pacific.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Henk
>
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