Talochlamys, Iredale, 1929

Dijkstra, Henk H. & Maestrati, Philippe, 2008, New species and new records of deep-water Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae and Pectinidae) from the South Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 77-114 : 106

Genus TALOCHLAMYS Iredale, 1929

Talochlamys Iredale, 1929: 164 . Type species (by original designation): Chlamys famigerator Iredale, 1925 (= Pecten pulleineanus Tate, 1887 ). Recent, southeastern and southern Australia.

DIAGNOSIS. — A byssate genus of Chlamydini , weakly inflated, solid to fragile, inequivalve, equilateral to inequilateral, elongate, up to 40 mm in height, valves with irregularly spaced primary radial squamous costae, with secondary interstitial riblets in late ontogeny, microsculpture of weak antimarginal striae, intersecting widely spaced prominent commarginal lamellae, shagreen microsculpture commonly lacking, byssal notch deep, ctenolium well developed.

DISTRIBUTION. — Late Eocene to Recent ( Beu 1995: 18). Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Australasia ( New Zealand and southeastern, southern and southwestern Australia) and tropical eastern Atlantic; littoral to upper bathyal depths.

REMARKS. — Hertlein (1969: N355) considered Talochlamys to be a junior synonym of Chlamys Röding, 1798 , but Waller (1993: 202) and subsequently Beu (1995: 11) and Beu & Darragh (2001: 95) treated Talochlamys as an extant genus in the tribe Chlamydini von Teppner, 1922 .