Veprichlamys Iredale, 1929
IREDALE, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No .2. Records of the Australian Museum, 17: 157-189. [p. 164]
«The very thin substance, obsolescence of sculpture, obliquity of shape, and delicacy of hinge characterize the deepwater species perillustris and challengeri, and for them the new subgeneric name Veprichlamys is introduced, the former being selected as type.»
TOM IREDALE, 1929
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Chlamys perillustris sp. nov.; T. Iredale, 1925, Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia, plate 41, figures 3, 4.
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Veprichlamys deynzerorum Dijkstra, 2004; H. H. Dijkstra, 2004, Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands, figures 3a-3d.
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«Veprichlamys Iredale, 1929: 164 (proposed as a subgenus of Mimachlamys). Type species (by original designation): Chlamys perillustris Iredale, 1925; Recent, off Victoria, Australia.
Diagnosis. — Small to medium-sized byssate Chlamydini of strongly prosocline shape, with narrow umbonal angle, auricles highly unequal; preradial antimarginal microsculpture; squamous primary radial costae, secondary costae intercalated near ventral margin (late in ontogeny on most specimens); interstitial antimarginal microsculpture present, with a few long, straight ridgelets in centre of central radial interspaces (shagreen present in few species); internal plicae present, rib carinae lacking; byssal notch deep, ctenolium welldeveloped. Hinge with moderately prominent resilial and dorsal teeth.
Distribution. — Miocene to Recent. Southwestern Pacifc, southern Australia and New Zealand, and the Galapagos Islands; living sublittorally to bathyally. Remarks. — Iredale (1929: 164) proposed Veprichlamys as a subgenus of Mimachlamys. Hertlein (1969: N355) treated Veprichlamys as a junior synonym of Chlamys, placed in the suprageneric Chlamys group. Waller (1993: 236; 2007: 942) considered the present Indo-West Pacific genus Veprichlamys to be a representative extant genus of Chlamydini, based on “its pre-radial microsculpture and lack of internal rib carinae”.» DIJKSTRA, H. H. 2013. Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica, 10: 1-108, pls. 1-32. [p. 85]
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