| PECTINIDAE | Aequipecten commutatus peripheralis Dijkstra & Kilburn, 2001 |
| Figure |
Holotype (lv) |
| Original name | Aequipecten commutatus peripheralis Dijkstra & Kilburn, 2001 |
| Autoreference | Dijkstra & Kilburn, 2001: 307, figs 46-48. |
| Reference | Dijkstra, H.H., & R.N. Kilburn, 2001. The family Pectinidae in South Africa and Mozambique (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea). - African Invertebrates 42: 263-321. |
| Type data | Holotype (lv: H 19.4 mm, L 18.4 mm) Natal Museum at Pietermaritzburg (NMSA E8964). Type locality: South Africa, Zululand, off Matigulu River mouth, 29*21.9'S, 31*56.2'E, 200-220 m, dead, mud, coarse sand and Dendrophyllia, 16.vi.1989 (NMDP stn ZR9). |
| Description | Shell up to ca. 20 mm high, rather compressed, higher than wide, subcircular, nearly equivalve, inequilateral, posteriorly obliquely ovate, right valve somewhat more convex than left valve, auricles slightly unequal in size, umbonal angle ca. 90 degrees, colour creamy with white and orange spots and streaks (V-shaped markings), right valve paler. Valves sculptured with 19 radial costae, solid and nearly smooth, anteriorly and posteriorly secondary 3-4 radial riblets, intercostal commarginal lamellae. Auricles with 7 scaly radial riblets. Byssal notch obsolete, byssal fasciole rather small. Functional ctenolium on suture (3-5 teeth). |
| Distribution |
South Africa (TL) |
| Habitat | Shells bathyally on soft sediments. |
