''Adamussium'' is a

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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 belonging to the

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Pectenidae from the

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around Antarctica. There are three known species but only one is extant, the Antarctic scallop (''A. colbecki''). Of the two extinct species ''A. jonkersi'' is from the

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deposits on King George Island in the

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and the other, ''A. necopinatum'', was described in 2016 from

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of East Antarctica.

Species

The following species are classified within the genus ''Adamussium'': * '' Adamussium colbecki'' ( E. A. Smith, 1902) (Antarctic scallop) * '' Adamussium jonkersi''

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, Gaździcki & Simoes, 2010 * '' Adamussium necopinatum'' Quilty,

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, Gallagher & Harding, 2016 † means extinct

References

Pectinidae Fauna of Antarctica Bivalve genera {{Pectinidae-stub