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Catalogue of Life
Pectinidae Bivalve genera {{Pectinidae-stub
genus
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of scallop
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 familie ...
s, marine bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, biv ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the family 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 ...
.Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. ''A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies.'' New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 30-31.
Fossil records
This genus is very ancient. It is known in thefossil record
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s from the Triassic
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to the Quaternary (age range: from 247.2 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.Fossilworks/ref>
Species
Species within the genus ''Aequipecten'' include: * ''Aequipecten acanthodes
''Aequipecten acanthodes'', the thistle scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc
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'' (Dall, 1925) — thistle scallop
* '' Aequipecten audouinii'' (Paryaudeau 1826) — sometimes given as a subspecies of ''A. opercularis''
* '' Aequipecten commutatus'' (Monterosato, 1875) — Canestrello scallop
* '' Aequipecten gibbus'' (Linnaeus
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, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological ...
) — calico scallop
* '' Aequipecten glyptus'' (Wood, 1828) — red-ribbed scallop
* '' Aequipecten heliacus'' (Dall
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, 1925)
* '' Aequipecten irradians'' — Atlantic bay scallop
* '' Aequipecten lindae'' (Petuch, 1995)
* '' Aequipecten lineolaris'' (Lamarck
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, 1819) — wavy-lined scallop
* '' Aequipecten linki'' (Dall
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* Anders Bendssøn Dall (died 1607), Danish Lutheran bishop
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, 1926)
* ''Aequipecten muscosus
The rough scallop, ''Aequipecten muscosus'', grows up to . It has a small, scallop-shaped shell with about 20 strong ribs which have many erect scales or small spines near the margin. The hinge line has ears.
The coloration of the rough scallop ...
'' — rough scallop
* '' Aequipecten opercularis'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological ...
) — Queen scallop
* '' Aequipecten tehuelchus'' ( D'Orbigny, 1846) — Tehuelche scallop
References
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