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Webb gave was "Bahamas," but he was quite unreliable in regard to 

 data; furthermore, no specimen resembling the holotype has ever been 

 reported from the western Atlantic. 



In summation, it is the author's contention that Pecten squarrosus 

 Carpenter is a nomen dubium ; of the two syntypes, for neither of which 

 a locality can be verified, one is definitely referable to the western Atlan- 

 tic P. muscosus Wood and the other is a puzzle. 



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