Placopecten
Sign in to savePlacopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderPectinida
- FamilyPectinidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Pectinidae
- Collections
- ANSP, NCSM, YPM, SIO, UF
- Recorded in
- Panama, United States, Costa Rica
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- Parent taxon
- Pectinidae
- Image
- Placopecten magellanicus.jpg
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Placopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
==Species== Species within the genus Placopecten include: Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791) — Atlantic deep-sea scallop
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Placopecten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.