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Nodipecten

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1898Nodipecten Dall
1906Pecten (Nodipecten) Arnold p. 49
1919Pecten (Nodipecten) Cooke p. 136
1945Chlamys (Nodipecten) Gardner p. 69
1958Chlamys (Nodipecten) DuBar p. 160
1971Lyropecten (Nodipecten) Jung p. 165
1974Nodipecten Addicott p. 182
1982Nodipecten Woodring p. 598
1984Nodipecten Moore p. B57
1991Nodipecten Smith pp. 86 - 87
2000Nodipecten Coan et al. p. 242
2001Nodipecten Todd
2002Nodipecten Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderPectinida(Gray 1854)
suborderPectinidina(Adams and Adams 1858)
superfamilyPectinoideaRafinesque 1815
PectinoidaeRafinesque 1815
familyPectinidaeWilkes 1810
genusNodipectenDall 1898

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Nodipecten Dall 1898
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Lyropecten colinensis colinensis Hodson and Hodson 1927
Nodipecten arnoldi Aguerrevere 1925
Nodipecten articulosus Cooke 1919
Nodipecten atlanticola Anderson 1929
Nodipecten colinensis Hodson and Hodson 1927
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Invalid names: Nodipecten clydonus Woodring 1982 [synonym]
Nodipecten estrellanus Conrad 1856
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Invalid names: Lyropecten volaeformis Conrad 1842 [synonym], Pecten heermanni Conrad 1855 [synonym]
Nodipecten macloskeyi Anderson 1929
Nodipecten magnificus Sowerby 1835
Nodipecten nodosus Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Pecten decemradiatus Gmelin 1791 [synonym]
Nodipecten subnodosus Sowerby 1836
Nodipecten veatchii Gabb 1866
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. T. Smith 1991Valve outline circular in most species; profiles equally convex, moderately flat to moderately convex, commonly with angular ledges. Radial ribs and interspaces costate and lirate. Right-valve interspaces cor- respond to left-valve ribs of alternating widths; left-valve ribs commonly nodose, as expressed by the scheme N r Nc r N. Auricles subequal to equal, costate and lirate. Hinge length about half shell length in most species. Byssal notch deep, ctenolium prominent. Three pairs of hinge teeth in right valve, two pairs in left valve. Hollow nodes more prominent on wider key ribs of left valves, present in right valves of some species, and commonly flanged in western Atlantic taxa.
Nodipecten is similar to the Holocene representative of Lyropecten, L. magnificus, from the Galapagos Islands. Both have costate, lirate ribs and interspaces, a deep byssal notch, and the same hinge teeth. They differ in arrangement of left-valve nodose ribs: Nodipecten is char- acterized by the scheme N r Nc r N and Lyropecten by N 2r Nc 2r N. These schemes can be traced through separate, distinct ancestral lineages despite the conver- gence of Holocene forms. Lyropecten magnificus has more rectangular auricles than Nodipecten, and as far as is known, no tendency toward ledging.One taxon, N. arthriticus (Reeve) [= N. subnodosus, s.s. auctt.], is referred here to Nodipecten although its rib scheme differs from the others. Holocene left valves look most like those of N. subnodosus [= N. intermedius of Conrad (1867)] except for the rib scheme of N 2r Nc r N. It is classified as a Nodipecten although it evolved by the late Miocene, possibly by a genetic mutation from a Pacific Panamic Lyropecten.