| PROPEAMUSSIIDAE | Cyclopecten fluctuosus Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008 |
| Figures |
(lv) Holotype (rv)
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| Original name | Cyclopecten fluctuosus Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008 |
| Autoreference | Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008: 14, figs 12A-D, 13. |
| Reference | Dijkstra, H.H. & B.A. Marshall, 2008. The Recent Pectinoidea of the New Zealand region (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Pectinidae and Spondylidae). - Molluscan Research 28(1): 1-88, 70 figs. |
| Type data | Holotype (pr: H 6.35 mm) National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research at Wellington (NIWA). Type locality: Tasman Basin, 41*20.4'S, 166*54.8'E, 1760-1799 m, alive, RV 'Tangaroa', 22.iv.1980 (NIWA P939). |
| Description | Shell small up to 6.55 mm high, fragile, subcircular, nearly equivalve of sculture, equilateral, left valve slightly more convex than right valve, auricles similar in size and shape and sculpture continuous with disc, umbonal angle ca. 120 degrees, colourless, strongly transparent. Valves sculptured throughout with closely spaced commarginal lamellae, somewhat wider in right valve. Byssal fasciole narrow. Internal riblets lacking. |
| Distribution |
Tasman Basin (TL), Bounty Trough, New Zealand |
| Habitat | Living lower bathyally on soft bottom assemblages. |
