Pecten guendolenae Melvill, 1888
MELVILL, J. C. 1888. Descriptions of six new species of Pecten. The Journal of Conchology, 5: 279-281, pl. 2. [p. 279, pl. 2, fig. 6]
«Pecten Guendolenae nov. sp. PI. ii, fig. 6.
P. testa globosa, perconvexa, subaequilaterali, valvis duo et viginti costis radiatis, triliratis ut in P. coruscante, interstitiis scabrosulis, valva sinistra roseo-brunned et prtmo-maculata, dexta pallidiose, auriculis inaequalibus, intus colorata.
Long. 15 mill., lat. 15 mill. Hab.: Mauritius. A subglobose little species, brightly coloured with white, rose, and plum-colour arranged in blotches. Very like a small P. nucleus, until its sculpture and structure be examined. The only shell with which this can be compared is P. coruscans (Hinds), described in Moll. Voy. Sulphur, p. 61, pl. 17, f. 3. From that species this would seem to differ in its decidedly more squarrose form, its having twenty-two, as against twenty, ribs, the more lively coloration, and the difference in locality. P. coruscans being from the Marquesas Islands.» JAMES COSMO MELVILL, 1888
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J. C. Melvill, 1888, plate 2.
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