Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Finet (2001): The holotype (USNM 110579) of this deepwater species has often been quoted as from “near the Galápagos”; actually, it has been collected at Lat. 8° 7’ S and Long. 104° 10’ W, i.e. at about 900 nautical miles southwest of the Galápagos Archipelago.; Syn.: Pecten (Pseudamusium) neoceanicus Dall, 1908 (basionym), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)

Origin: Native

• Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
• Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.