Pecten novaeguineae Tenison Woods, 1878
TENISON WOODS, J. E. 1878. On some Tertiary fossils from New Guinea. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 2: 267-268. [p. 267]
PECTEN NOVAEGUINEAE.
«P. shell regularly orbicular, equivalve regularly convex, but not globose, rather thick, equilateral and symmetrically rounded at the margin; ears quite square, one being a little obliquely indented at the edge, but otherwise almost equal and rather large; furnished with 12 to 14 large rounded radiate ribs, each with two rather shallow radiate grooves and transversely striate, striae at the marginal end becoming scaly raised imbricateous, 8 to 10 in number, interstices furnished with two to three conspicuous, slender, granular ribs, umbones very acute, ears with 8 to 10 very granular ribs. Long. 60, lat. 50. thickness of two valves 30 millim.
The scaly margin gives this shell somewhat the aspect of P. pallium, but that has a generally depressed habit, and the scales cover the test. It cannot be mistaken for P. asper of South Australia, which has about 25 ribs, but the peculiar multiradiate form of the ribs allies it to that shell and the common Australian P. bifrons. It is something like P. radula, Linn, of the Philippine Islands, but the shape is different altogether. It is an Australian form, but with only remote resemblances, unless to one still existing in the neighbouring seas.» JULIAN EDMUND TENISON WOODS, 1878
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