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Pectinoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the Austral Islands (French Polynesia)
- Source :
- Zoosystema. 32:333-358
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 2010.
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Abstract
- Twenty-nine species of Pectinoidea (12 Propeamussiidae, 1 Entoliidae, 16 Pectinidae) are recorded from the Austral Islands, the southernmost archipelago of French Polynesia. One genus (Pectinidae: Lamellipecten n. gen.) and five species (Propeamussiidae: Parvamussium australanum n. sp., Cyclochlamys australensis n. sp., Cyclopecten ambiguus n. sp.; Pectinidae: Lamellipecten aduncus n. gen., n. sp., Mimachlamys erycina n. sp.) are new to science, and most others are new records for the archipelago. The near-shore fauna of Rapa has 12 species of Pectinidae, and half of these have narrow-range distributions. Such a remarkably high level of marine endemism is shared by other mollusc taxa on Rapa.
- Subjects :
- food.ingredient
Fauna
Entoliidae
Pectinoida
food
Animalia
Endemism
Propeamussiidae
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Taxonomy
Cyclochlamydidae
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Ecology
Pectinidae
Pectinoidea
Biodiversity
biology.organism_classification
Bivalvia
Mollusca
Mimachlamys
Archipelago
Animal Science and Zoology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 12809551
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zoosystema
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a227e0ae3d92e51f44f751051aef68c