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Flexopecten
Sign in to saveFlexopecten is a genus of saltwater scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
Species
Smooth Scallop
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderPectinida
- FamilyPectinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations827
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 149
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Pectinidae
- Collections
- USNM, PRI, NRM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Tristan Da Cunha Islands, Australia, Italy, United States, British Virgin Islands, Greece, Belize, Corse
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Flexopecten is a genus of saltwater scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
==Species== Species and subspecies within the genus Flexopecten include: Flexopecten felipponei (Dall, 1922) Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795) Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889) Flexopecten hyalinus (Poli, 1795)
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