Delectopecten macrocheiricola (Habe, 1951)
HABE, T. 1951. Genera of Japanese Shells. Pelecypoda (I). Kairui bunken kankô-kai. Kyoto. Japan. 96 pp. [p. 80]
1951 Palliolum (Delectopecten) macrocheiricola Habe, 1951
«Pseudoamussium (Palliolum) vitreum (Gmelin), Kuroda, 1931, p. 81, figs. 94,95 (non Gmelin, 1791).
Delectopecten vitrea (Gmelin), Hiro, 1938, p. 474, fig. 5 (non Gmelin, 1791). Palliolum (Delectopecten) macrocheiricola Habe, 1951, p. 80; Shuto, 1960, p. 124, text-fig. 2. Holotype: – Unknown.
Remarks: – This species was named by Habe (1951) based upon the figures and description of Hiro (1938). Type locality: – Off Kii, Wakayama Prefecture. Recent. Distribution: – Takanabe formation, Miyazaki Prefecture; Living off Kochi Prefecture and Japan Sea: Early Pliocene to Recent.» MASUDA, K. 1962. Tertiary Pectinidae of Japan. Science Reports of the Tohoku University [2nd. Series -Geology], 33 (2): 117-238, pls. 18-27. [p. 158]
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«A small bivalve, rounded in outline, equivalve and equilateral except for ears, and compressed. Shell thin , semitransparent and whitish with hyaline polish; its outer surface apparently smooth but finely striated with many delicate radial ridges crossed by faint sublaminate incremental lines of growth. Radial ridges close-set, measuring about 12-13 in number for a breadth of 1 mm, and sometimes dichotomous here and there. Ears unequal, the anterior larger and a little longer than the posterior. The anterior ear of right valve with a deep byssal notch and also that of left valve are provided with many microscopically minute teeth arranged radially.»
HIRO, F. 1938. Notes on the animals found on Macrocheira kaempferi de Haan I. Cirripeds, II. Molluscs. Annotations Zoologicae Japonenses, 17 (3-4): 465-476, text-figs. 1-5. [p. 474]
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