Gloripallium Iredale, 1939

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Beu, Alan G., 2018, Living Scallops of Australia and Adjacent Waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae), Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (2), pp. 113-330 : 194

Gloripallium Iredale, 1939

Gloripallium Iredale, 1939: 357 . Type species (by original designation): Ostrea pallium Linnaeus, 1758 ; Recent, Indonesia.

Diagnosis. Medium-sized Decatopectinini with 7–14 radial plicae; subcircular to circular; with prominent commarginal lamellae on plicae; secondary sculpture of radial riblets (lacking from some specimens); noduliferous radial macrosculpture on auricles, commarginal microsculpture on auricles and on disc in early growth stage of some specimens; internal rib carinae prominent; hinge with prominent dorsal teeth and weak resilial teeth; byssal notch deep, ctenolium well-developed.

Distribution. Miocene–Recent (Hayami, 1989: 15). Tropical Indo-West Pacific, living in the littoral to sublittoral zones amongst coral on soft sediment.

Discussion. Hertlein (1969: N357) treated Gloripallium as a subjective junior synonym of Cryptopecten Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938 , a subgenus of Chlamys Röding, 1798 , placed in the Chlamys group. Waller (1986: 40) recognized Gloripallium as a valid genus in Decatopectinini .