Pecten meridionalis Tate, 1887
TATE, R. 1887. On the Australian pectens confounded with the new Zealand P. laticostatus (Gray). Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1886: 113-116. [p. 115]
«PECTEN MERIDIONALIS. (Spec, nov.)
(P. meridionalis.) Brazier MS.) Right or convex valve with about 16 radiating ribs; whole surface closely concentrically lamellose, more conspicuously so in the furrows; ribs convexly depressed, longitudinally sulcated; furrows concave, as wide or a little wider than the ribs. Exterior colour purplish-grey, pale straw about the umbo; interior colour maroon around a white central patch.
Left or flat valve closely concentrically lamellose, ribs roundly convex, furrows concave about as wide as the ribs, exterior colour purplish-grey, interior maroon. Young shells up to 60 mills, long have the convex valve both inside and out, white with a pinkish tinge towards the margin; the flat valve is ruddy-brown exteriorly, white with ruddy-brown ribs interiorly. Dimensions of right valve of a large specimen:— Anteroposterior diameter, 120; ventro-dorsal diameter, 104; ventro-dorsal curve, 125; greatest depth at 40 from umbo, 27 millimetres. LOCALITIES.— Living on the shores of Tasmania. Fossil in the newer tertiary deposits at Ascot Heath, River Glenelg, Victoria. (J. Dennant!)» RALPH TATE, 1887
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Pecten jacobaeus meridionalis Tate; C. A. Fleming, 1957, The genus Pecten in New Zealand, plate 7, figure 4.
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