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Chlamys

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Bivalvia
    Subclass:  
Pteriomorphia
    Order:  
Pterioida
    Suborder:  
Pteriina
    Superfamily:  
Pectinacea (scallops and relatives)
    Family:  
Pectinidae (scallop family)
    Subfamily:  
Chlamys group
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Chlamys RÖDING, 1798 [non KOCH, 1801]
    Type Species:  
Pecten islandicus Müller, 1776, SD HERRMANNSEN, 1847


Images

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Fig. C78, 7. *C. (A.) opercularis (Linné), Rec., France, RV ext., X0.7 (Chenu, 1844), Fig. C 78,2. *C. (A.) anatipes (Morton), Oligo. (Vicksburg F.), USA(Miss.), 2a, LV ext., X1 (Cooke, 1926), 2b, RV ext., X2 (802)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Trias.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Induan
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
251.9
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Rec.
    Ending International Stage:  
Meghalayan
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
0


Description

Higher than long or rounded, commonly somewhat oblique, LV usually more convex but in some species valves nearly equally convex, auricles clearly delimited, usually large, byssal notch large, ctenolium usually present, sculpture of radial (usually stronger) and concentric elements, with scalelike spines commonly developed at their junctions, especially on LV but some shells nearly smooth, interspaces of many forms with intercalaries in adult, margin usually scalloped, cardinal crura variable in number and size.




References

Röding, P. F., 1798, Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten, M.D.p.d., Pars Secunda: viii +119 p., Typis Johan Christi Trapii (Hamburg).


Museum or Author Information

Chenu, 1844, Cooke, 1926