Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinida > Superfamily Pectinoidea > Family Pectinidae > Subfamily Camptonectinae

Delectopecten R. B. Stewart, 1930

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Palliolum (Delectopecten)*	R. B. Stewart, 1930	synonym

Children

Delectopecten vitreus (Gmelin, 1791)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Russian: Делектопектен

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
additional source	MacNeil, F. S. (1967). Cenozoic pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and other northern regions. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. 553: iv + 1-57, pls. 1-25.
redescription	Dijkstra, H. H. (2013). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica. 10: 1-108 [6 April 2013].
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Delectopecten R. B. Stewart, 1930. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138318