
PECTEN SITE
Collection Arne Ghys
These Pectinidae species can be found in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. This malacological province includes the African countries from Mozambique to Somalia, the whole Indian Ocean to the North of Australia, all the islands of Polynesia and Melanesia, the Philippines up to the South of Japan.
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Amusium balloti (Bernardi, 1861) ![]()
Amusium japonicum taiwanense Dijkstra, 1988 ![]()
Amusium pleuronectes (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Anguipecten gregoryi Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 ![]()
Anguipecten lamberti (Souverbie in Souverbie & Montrouzier, 1874)
Anguipecten pacificus Dijkstra, 2002
Anguipecten picturatus Dijkstra, 1995 ![]()
Anguipecten simoneae Morrison & Whisson, 2009 ![]()
Anguipecten superbus (Sowerby II, 1842) ![]()
Annachlamys flabellata (Lamarck, 1819) ![]()
Annachlamys iredalei (Powell, 1958)
Annachlamys kuhnholtzi (Bernardi, 1860) ![]()
Annachlamys reevei (Adams in Adams & Reeve, 1850) ![]()
Annachlamys striatula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Azumapecten farreri (Jones & Preston, 1904) ![]()
Azumapecten ruschenbergerii (Tryon, 1869) ![]()
Azumapecten squamea Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2009
Bractechlamys adorabilis Dijkstra & Roussy, 1994 ![]()
Bractechlamys langfordi (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938) ![]()
Bractechlamys nodulifera (Sowerby II, 1842) ![]()
Bractechlamys oweni (Gregorio, 1884) ![]()
Bractechlamys vexillum (Reeve, 1853)
Ciclopecten fluctuatus (Bavay, 1905)
Complicachlamys wardiana Iredale, 1939 ![]()
Coralichlamys madreporarum (Sowerby II, 1842) ![]()
Cryptopecten bernardi (Philippi, 1851)
Cryptopecten bullatus (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) ![]()
Cryptopecten nux (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Cryptopecten vesiculosus (Dunker, 1877) ![]()
Decatopecten amiculum (Philippi, 1851) ![]()
Decatopecten plica (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Decatopecten radula griggi (Webb, 1957) ![]()
Decatopecten radula radula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Delectopecten alcocki (Smith, 1904) ![]()
Delectopecten musorstomi Poutiers, 1981
Dentamussium obliteratum (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Excellichlamys histrionica (Gmelin, 1791) ![]()
Excellichlamys sowerbyi Dijkstra, 1998
Excellichlamys spectabilis (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Glorichlamys elegantissima (Deshayes in Maillard, 1863) ![]()
Glorichlamys quadrilirata (Lischke, 1870) ![]()
Gloripallium maculosum (Forsskal, 1775) ![]()
Gloripallium pallium pallium (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Gloripallium pallium speciosum (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Gloripallium spiniferum (Sowerby I, 1835)
Haumea loxoides (Sowerby II, 1842) ![]()
Haumea minuta (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Hemipecten forbesianus Adams & Reeve, 1849 ![]()
Hyalopecten mireilleae Dijkstra, 1995
Hyalopecten tydemani (Dijkstra, 1990)
Juxtamusium coudeini (Bavay, 1903) ![]()
Juxtamusium maldivense (Smith, 1903)
Laevichlamys aliae (Dijkstra, 1989)
Laevichlamys allorenti (Dijkstra, 1988)
Laevichlamys andamanica (Preston, 1908) ![]()
Laevichlamys cookei (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Laevichlamys cuneata (Reeve, 1853)
Laevichlamys deliciosa (Iredale, 1939)
Laevichlamys gladysiae (Melvill, 1888)
Laevichlamys kauaiensis (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Laevichlamys lemniscata (Reeve, 1853)
Laevichlamys limatula (Reeve, 1853)
Laevichlamys mollita (Reeve, 1853)
Laevichlamys multisqualida Dijkstra, 1994
Laevichlamys rubromaculata (Sowerby II, 1842) ![]()
Laevichlamys squamosa (Gmelin, 1791) ![]()
Laevichlamys weberi (Bavay, 1904)
Laevichlamys wilhelminae (Bavay, 1904) ![]()
Mimachlamys albolineata (Sowerby II, 1842)
Mimachlamys cloacata (Reeve, 1853)
Mimachlamys crassicostata (Sowerby II, 1842)
Mimachlamys curtisiana Iredale, 1939 ![]()
Mimachlamys funebris (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Mimachlamys gloriosa (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Mimachlamys lentiginosa (Reeve, 1853)
Mimachlamys sanguinea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mimachlamys scabricostata (Sowerby III, 1915)
Mimachlamys townsendi (Sowerby III, 1895)
Minnivola pyxidata (Born, 1778)
Mirapecten cranmerorum (Waller, 1986)
Mirapecten mirificus (Reeve, 1853)
Mirapecten moluccensis Dijkstra, 1988
Mirapecten rastellum (Lamarck, 1819)
Mirapecten tuberosus Dijkstra & Kilburn, 2001
Palliolum minutulum Dijkstra & Southgate, 2000
Pascahinnites coruscans coruscans (Hinds, 1845)
Pascahinnites coruscans hawaiensis (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Pecten albicans (Schröter, 1802)
Pecten diomedeus Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Pecten dorotheae Melvill in Melvill & Standen, 1907
Pecten waikikius Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Pedum spondyloideum (Gmelin, 1791)
Pseudohinnites levii Dijkstra, 1989
Scaeochlamys livida (Lamarck, 1819)
Scaeochlamys squamata (Gmelin, 1791)
Scaeochlamys squamea Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2009
Serratovola angusticostata Dijkstra, 2008
Serratovola gardineri (Smith, 1903)
Serratovola pallula Dijkstra, 1998
Serratovola rubicunda (Récluz in Chenu, 1843)
Semipallium amicum (Smith, 1885)
Semipallium barnetti Dijkstra, 1989
Semipallium crouchi (Smith, 1892) ![]()
Semipallium dianae (Crandall, 1979) ![]()
Semipallium dringi (Reeve, 1853) ![]()
Semipallium flavicans (Linnaeus, 1758) ![]()
Semipallium fulvicostatum (Adams & Reeve, 1850) ![]()
Semipallium marybellae Raines, 1996 ![]()
Semipallium rapanense (Bavay, 1905)
Sinepecten segonzaci Schein, 2006
Talochlamys inaequalis Dijkstra & Moolenbeek, 2008
Talochlamys contorta Dijkstra, 1993 ![]()
Veprichlamys africana Dijkstra & Kilburn, 2001 ![]()
Veprichlamys deynzerorum Dijkstra, 2004 ![]()
Veprichlamys jousseaumei (Bavay, 1904) ![]()
Veprichlamys kiwaensis (Powell, 1933)
Veprichlamys versipellis Dijkstra & Kastoro, 1997
Volachlamys fultoni (Sowerby III, 1904) ![]()
Volachlamys hirasei (Bavay, 1904)
Volachlamys singaporina (Sowerby II, 1842)
Volachlamys sinomarina (Hertlein, 1936)
Volachlamys tranquebaria (Gmelin, 1791)