Hello everybody (who isn't relaxing on a sunny beach now...),

I've received some interesting Philippine Pecten's recently, which are
labelled 'Annachlamys reevei'. I only have one Pecten reference book
(the Rombouts publication) where it is only mentioned as a subspecies of
Chlamys macassarensis. The fact is : in the same parcel there's a lot of
regular C. macassarensis too, and I find it hard to believe this is the
same species. My 'reevei's' are much more inflated than the
macassarensis. On the net I found following link with a photograph that
has a good match with my specimen :

www.nat-museum.sanda.hyogo.jp/coll/shell/mssl/docs/A2001445-A.html

Colour and shape are about the same, but my question is : is this a
valid species on its own or a subspecies of macassarensis? Moreover I
have 5 specimen which are the same shape as my 'reevei' but completely
bright orange in colour. Can I trust these to be 'reevei's' also ?

Any info is highly appreciated!

Nice holidays to everyone,

Jan Haspeslagh
Belgium