Talochlamys Iredale, 1929

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 : 268

Talochlamys Iredale, 1929

Talochlamys Iredale, 1929: 188 . Type species (by original designation): Chlamys famigerator Iredale, 1925 (= Pecten pulleineanus Tate, 1887 ), Recent, southern and eastern Australia.

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized, byssate Pedini with unevenly spaced squamose primary radial costae or narrow plicae, and with secondary interstitial (mimachlamydoidlike) riblets in late ontogeny; microsculpture of weak antimarginal striae (also lacking in late ontogeny) and interstitial, widely spaced, prominent commarginal lamellae; shagreen microsculpture absent from post-Eocene species; internal rib carinae lacking; weak dorsal and resilial hinge teeth; byssal notch deep, ctenolium prominent.

Distribution. Paleocene–Recent (Beu & Darragh, 2001; del Rio & Martinez, 2015: appendix 1). Eastern Atlantic, Indo-West Pacific, southern Australia and New Zealand, living in the littoral to bathyal zones.

Discussion. Hertlein (1969: N355) treated Talochlamys as a junior synonym of Chlamys Röding, 1798 , placed in the suprageneric Chlamys group. Waller (1993: 202) considered Talochlamys to be a valid genus of Chlamydini (i.e., Pedini ).

Beu (1995: 18) for the first time included several fossil and Recent species from New Zealand in Talochlamys (see also Beu & Darragh, 2001; Dijkstra & Marshall, 2008).