''Flexopecten'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of saltwater
scallop
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve molluscs in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related famili ...
s,
marine bivalve
Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class (biology), class of aquatic animal, aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed b ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the family
Pectinidae
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusc, molluscs in the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also ...
, 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)
Synonyms:
* ''Flexopecten coarctatus'' (Born, 1778) = ''Flexopecten flexuosus'' (Poli, 1795)
* ''Flexopecten glaber glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Flexopecten glaber proteus'' (Dillwyn, 1817) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''Flexopecten ponticus'' = ''Flexopecten glaber ponticus'' (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889)
* ''Flexopecten proteus'' (Dillwyn, 1817) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
WoRMS info on the genus
Pectinidae
Bivalve genera
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