Cyclopecten kapalae Dijkstra 1990

Cyclopecten kapalae Dijkstra, 1990 Cyclopecten kapalae Dijkstra, 1990: 29, figs 1-5. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Australia. New South Wales, off Sydney, 914- 907 m, holotype spm (AMS C.155831.1). Vanuatu. SANTO 2006, stn AT19, 15°40.8’S, 167°00.5’E, 503-600 m, 6 lv, 4 rv. — Stn DB69, 15°24.4’S, 167°13.0’E, 38 m, 1 spm. DISTRIBUTION. — Eastern Australia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (new record) and Kermadec Islands. Earlier known from 512-549 m (Dijkstra & Maestrati 2008: 97), the Santo specimen live collected in 38 m shows that this is a shallow offshore species.
Published as part of Dijkstra, Henk H. & Maestrati, Philippe, 2012, Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae n. fam., Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Vanuatu Archipelago, pp. 389-408 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 393, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a12, http://zenodo.org/record/5165513
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