''Pecten'' is a

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of large

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s or saltwater

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s, marine

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s in the

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, the scallops. This is the

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of the family.

Etymology

The name ''Pecten'' is from the Latin word for a

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. Since 1904, a ''Pecten'' shell has been used as the basis of the logo of

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Species

Species in the genus ''Pecten'' include: *'' P. albicans'' (Schröter, 1802) *'' P. afribenedictus'' Kilburn & Dijkstra 1995 *'' P. alcesianus'' † McLearn 1933 *'' P. alpha'' † Dall 1898 *'' P. argillensis'' † Conrad 1860 *'' P. assinboiensis'' † Russell & Landes 1937 *'' P. aurantiacus'' Roding 1798 *'' P. aztecus'' † Bose 1906 *'' P. barretti'' † Seeley 1861 *'' P. bifidus'' † Menke 1843 *'' P.biddleana'' †Kellum 1926 *'' P. cadwalladerensis'' † McLearn 1942 *'' P. ceibanus'' † Cooke 1928 *'' P. coderensis'' † Harris 1927 *'' P. collapsus'' † White 1887 *'' P. coralliphila'' † Olsson 1922 *'' P. danicus'' Chemnitz 1795 *'' P. deformis'' † Tate 1887 *'' P. dendyi'' † Hutton 1902 *'' P. dentatus'' Sowerby 1829 *'' P. disparatus'' † Wood 1882 *'' P. duplicicosta'' † Roemer, 1849 *'' P. elixatus'' † Conrad 1846 *'' P. excavatus'' Anton, 1838 *'' P. expansus'' † Smith 1847 *'' P. flemingianus'' † de Koninck 1863 *'' P. fumata'' † *'' P. fumatus'' Reeve 1852 *'' P. gramamensis'' † Maury 1930 *'' P. grapteus'' † Maury 1924 *'' P. hemphillii'' † Dall 1879 *'' P. humphreysii'' † Conrad 1842 *'' P. inaequalis'' † Cossmann & Lambert 1884 *'' P. jacobaeus''

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*'' P. kokcharofi'' † de Verneuil 1845 *'' P. lowei'' Hertlein 1935 *'' P. maximus''

*'' P. mclellani'' † Gibson 1987 *'' P. mediacostatus'' † Hanna 1926 *'' P. membranosus'' † Morton 1834 *'' P. mendenhalli'' † Arnold 1906 *'' P. nearchi'' † Vredenburg 1928 *'' Pecten nigromagnus'' † 1897 *'' P. novaezelandiae'' Reeve 1853 *'' P. nugenti'' † Brown 1913 *'' P. obsoletus'' Pennant 1777 *'' P. palmipes'' † Tate 1886 *'' P. paradezii'' † d'Orbigny 1842 *'' P. pascoei'' † Cox 1936 *'' P. pictus'' † Cossmann & Lambert 1884 *'' P. pilgrimi'' † Cox 1936 *'' P. plebeia'' † Lamarck 1806 *'' P. politus'' † Gemmellaro 1896 *'' P. pontiamnis'' † McLearn 1942 *'' P. pseudosolarium'' † Hassan 1953 *'' P. ptychotis'' † M'Coy 1847 *'' P. raoulensis'' Powell 1958 *'' P. sanctiludovici'' † Anderson & Martin 1914 *'' P. santarosanus'' † Bose 1905 *'' P. saskatchewanensis'' † Warren 1934 *'' P. scintillatus'' † Conrad 1865 *'' P. seabeensis'' † Richards 1947 *'' P. sealyi'' † Richards 1947 *'' P. sedanensis'' † Martin 1909 *'' P. silentiensis'' † McLearn 1926 *'' P. squamula'' † Lamarck 1806 *'' P. striatus'' Müller 1776 *'' P. subrufus'' Pennant 1777 *'' P. sulcicostatus'' Sowerby II, 1842 *'' P. suwanneensis'' † Dall 1898 *'' P. thaumastus'' † Maury 1924 *'' P. triradiatus'' Müller 1776 *'' P. tyaughtonae'' † McLearn 1942 *'' P. vasseli'' † Fuchs 1878 *'' P. vaughani'' † Cooke 1919 *'' P. vigintisulcatus'' † Müller 1776 *'' P. wendelli'' † Tucker 1934 *'' P. yessoensis'' Jay, 1857

References

Bibliography

*Frank H.T. Rodes, Herbert S. Zim en Paul R. Shaffer (1993) – Natuurgids Fossielen (het ontstaan, prepareren en rangschikken van fossielen), Zuidnederlandse Uitgeverij N.V., Aartselaar. ISBN D-1993-0001-361 *Cyril Walker & David Ward (1993) – Fossielen: Sesam Natuur Handboeken, Bosch & Keuning, Baarn. Pectinidae Bivalve genera Extant Cretaceous first appearances Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller Long stubs with short prose {{Paleo-mollusc-stub