Chlamys corymbiatus Hedley, 1909
HEDLEY, C. 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, North Queensland. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 34: 420-466, pls. 36-44. [p. 423, pl. 36, figs. 1-4]
«CHLAMYS CORYMBIATUS, n.sp.
(Plate xxxvi., figs. 1-4.) A species of the Aequipecten group, small, solid, inflated, almost equilateral, scarcely gaping, left valve shallower. Colour ochraceous mottled with opaque white and chestnut-brown. Sculpture: eighteen prominent ribs parted by deep grooves, the latter densely latticed by thin produced lamellae. Each rib is tripartite and decorated by small epidermal blisters which resolve into a median, lateral and connecting series. The median and lateral blisters assume the form of imbricating scales, the intermediate ones are like berries. For a space at each side the ribs are absent. Right anterior auricle ribbed by four spaced nodose riblets, the posterior rayed by half a dozen tuberculate threads. Ctenidium of five teeth. Interior smooth with plicate margins. Height 20; length 20; depth of single valve 7 mm.
Mr. A. Bavay, who kindly examined this species for me, con aiders that it is a new species related to C. nux Reeve. G. smithi Sowerby, is also akin. It was an abundant species off the Hope Islands, and seems generally distributed in tropical Queensland, for I took it, in 15 fathoms, off the Palm Islands, and, in 10 fathoms, off Mapoon. Mr. A. U. Henn collected it in anchormud from 10½ fathoms off Cape Sidmouth.» CHARLES HEDLEY, 1909
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C. Hedley, 1909, plate 36.
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