Veprichlamys 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 : 271

Veprichlamys Iredale, 1929

Veprichlamys Iredale, 1929: 164 (proposed as a subgenus of Mimachlamys ). Type species (by original designation): Chlamys perillustris Iredale, 1925 . Recent , off Victoria, Australia .

Diagnosis. Small to medium-sized byssate Pedini of strongly prosocline shape, with narrow umbonal angle, auricles highly unequal; pre-radial antimarginal microsculpture; narrow, squamous primary radial costae, secondary costae intercalated near ventral margin (late in ontogeny on most specimens); interstitial antimarginal microsculpture present, with a few long, straight ridgelets in centre of central radial interspaces, shagreen present in a few species; shallow internal radial furrows present, rib carinae lacking; byssal notch deep, ctenolium well-developed. Hinge with moderately prominent resilial and dorsal teeth.

Distribution. Miocene–Recent (Beu & Darragh, 2001: 115–118; Balcombian Australian Stage, middle Miocene). Southwestern Pacifc, southern Australia, New Zealand, and the Galapagos Islands , living in the sublittoral to bathyal zones.

Discussion. Iredale (1929: 164) proposed Veprichlamys as a subgenus of Mimachlamys . Hertlein (1969: N355) treated Veprichlamys as a junior synonym of Chlamys , placed in the suprageneric Chlamys group. Waller (1993: 236; 2007: 942) considered Veprichlamys to be an extant genus of Chlamydini (i.e., Pedini ), based on “its pre-radial microsculpture and lack of internal rib carinae”.