Aequipecten
Aequipecten Temporal range:
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Queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Pectinida |
Family: | Pectinidae |
Genus: | Aequipecten P. Fischer, 1886 |
Species | |
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Aequipecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.[1]
Fossil records
This genus is very ancient. It is known in the fossil records from the Triassic to the Quaternary (age range: from 247.2 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Aequipecten include:
- Aequipecten acanthodes (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, ) — calico scallop
- Aequipecten glyptus (Wood, 1828) — red-ribbed scallop
- Aequipecten heliacus (Dall, 1925)
- Aequipecten irradians — Atlantic bay scallop
- Aequipecten lindae (Petuch, 1995)
- Aequipecten lineolaris (Lamarck, 1819) — wavy-lined scallop
- Aequipecten linki (Dall, 1926)
- Aequipecten muscosus — rough scallop
- Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, ) — Queen scallop
- Aequipecten tehuelchus (D'Orbigny, 1846) — Tehuelche scallop
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fossilworks
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