Haumea minuta (Linnaeus, 1758)
LINNAEUS, C. 1758. Sistema Naturae per Regna tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata, [iii], 824 p. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm], 1758. [p. 696]
Pecten inaequivalvis; G.B. Sowerby II, 1842, Monograph of the genus Pecten, Thesaurus Conchyliorum, Volume I, plate 19, figures 193-195.
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CAROLUS LINNAEUS, 1758
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«Distribution: Throughout tropical Indo-Pacific, except Red Sea and Hawaii.
Habitat: Free-living (perhaps in colonies) on sandy or muddy sand bottoms with rubble or sediments at littoral to sublittoral depths. [H. loxoides from Hawaii lives in dense colonies on beds of sand at 15 m depth (Calabrese & Cook 1970: 3; Earle 1985: 4)]. Remarks: The present specimens from Mozambique and South Africa resemble the type material of Pecten minuta and P. inaequivalvis, although coloration is somewhat paler. This species has not previously been recorded from Mozambique or South Africa. Haumea loxoides from Hawaii is very similar to H. minuta, but has a more fragile and oblique shell. Juveniles of H. minuta could be confused with Haumea rehderi (Grau,1960), a small species (maximum height ca. 5 mm), occurring throughout much of the tropical Indo-West Pacific; it has more prominent radial costae with more widely set commarginal lamellae in their intervals.» DIJKSTRA, H.H. & R.N. KILBURN. 2001. The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea). African Invertebrates, 42: 263-321. [p. 313-314] |
Haumea minuta (Linnaeus, 1758); H. H. Dijkstra & R. N. Kilburn, 2001, The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique, figures 52, 53.
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