| PECTINIDAE | Gloripallium maculosum (Forsskål, 1775) |
| Figure |
Lectotype |
| Original name | Ostrea maculosa Forsskål, 1775 |
| Autoreference | Forsskål, 1775: 123, no. 59. |
| Reference | Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Møller, Copenhagen, xxxiv + 140 pp. Preface by Niebuhr, 19 pp. |
| Type data | Lectotype (pr: H 56.0 mm, L 51.1 mm, D 21.1 mm) Zoological Museum University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (ZMUC BIV 29), designated by Yaron, Schiøtte & Wium-Andersen (1986: 181, fig. 22). Type locality: Suez, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. |
| Description | Shell up to c. 60 mm high, solid, weakly inflated, nearly equiconvex, subcircular (juveniles), more elongate (adults), almost equivalve and equilateral, auricles unequal, umbonal angle c. 85-90*, colour variable, milky white with white, orange, red or brown maculations or patches, right valve somewhat paler. Both valves sculptured with 7-10 primary radial lirae with delicate commarginally raised ridges (rarely scaled), 3-4 radial riblets in interspaces with weak erect scales, . Byssal notch moderately shallow, byssal fasciole narrow. Functional ctenolium on suture with c. 6 teeth. |
| Distribution |
Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Suez(TL) |
| Habitat | Living (sub)littorally amongst coral and coral debris on a sandy bottom. |
