+- Forums SEASHELL-COLLECTOR (http://forum.seashell-collector.com)
+-- Forum: Seashell Collector's Forum (http://forum.seashell-collector.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Forum: Shells identification Help (http://forum.seashell-collector.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=5)
+--- Thread: unidetified pecten from guam (/showthread.php?tid=13223)
unidetified pecten from guam - NMarshman - 12-22-2015
location: Gab Gab Beach, Guam
Size 48mm
RE: unidetified pecten from guam - paul monfils - 12-24-2015
Pretty tough from the inside of the valve. Can you photograph the outside?
RE: unidetified pecten from guam - NMarshman - 12-25-2015
although it looks like the inside, that is the outside
RE: unidetified pecten from guam - paul monfils - 12-27-2015
OOPS! Sorry about that! I should have opened the actual image rather than simply looking at the small icon. This could be a bit difficult to ID by comparing it to pictures in books because it is a right ("lower") valve, while almost all books show the left valve of Pectinidae, and the shapes are somewhat different. It looks to me like a young Mimachlamys sanguinea (Linne, 1758). I'm not certain, and perhaps one of our Pectinidae experts might have another idea.