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

Aequipectinini F. Nordsieck, 1969

Rank: Tribe
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Tribe group names

*Aequipectininae*	F. Nordsieck, 1969	synonym

Children

Aequipecten P. Fischer, 1886
Argopecten Monterosato, 1889
Flexopecten Sacco, 1897
Lindapecten Petuch, 1995
Perapecten H. P. Wagner, 1985

Literature

basis of record	Waller, T. R. (1993). The evolution of "Chlamys" (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) in the tropical western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. American Malacological Bulletin. 10 (2): 195-249.
basis of record	Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J. P. (2010). Nomenclator of bivalve families; with a classification of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184.
additional source	Santelli, M.; Del Río, C.; Távora, V.; Feijó Ramos, M. (2024). Early Miocene aequipectininin bivalves of the Pirabas Formation of the Pará State, northeastern Brazill. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 69(2): 281-302.
redescription	Dijkstra, H. H. (2013). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. Vita Malacologica. 10: 1-108 [6 April 2013].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aequipectinini F. Nordsieck, 1969. 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:577989