Cyclopecten simplex Verrill, 1897
VERRILL, A. E. 1897. A study of the family Pectinidae, with a revision of the genera and subgenera. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10: 41-95, pls. 16-21. [p. 87, pl. 16, fig. 1; pl. 19, figs. 1-2]
1897 Cyclopecten simplex Verrill, 1897
A. E. Verrill, 1987, plates 16, 19.
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«Shell well rounded, thin, compressed, hyaline. Auricles large, prominent at both ends, unequal, in the right valve the anterior end is considerably prolonged, with a deep byssal notch, and the posterior end is less prolonged with a rather deep emargination or sinus; in the left valve both ends are shorter and angulated. The left valve is nearly smooth; the right valve is covered with fine, crowded, concentric, incised lines, and has faint radii on the anterior auricle. Resilial pit small. Transverse incisions of the hinge are fine and vermiculated or irregular.
Height, 4.4 mm; breadth about the same. West Indies, U. S. Fish Com.» ADDISON EMERY VERRILL, 1897
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