''Mesopeplum'' is a genus of
scallop
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s,
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molluscs in the
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Pectinidae
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families ...
.
Species in the genus ''Mesopeplum''
* ''
Mesopeplum caroli''
* ''
Mesopeplum convexum''
( Quoy and Gaimard
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, 1835)
* ''
Mesopeplum fenestratum''
* ''
Mesopeplum crawfordi'' †
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, (1979),
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Pectinidae
Bivalves of Australia
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