Aequipecten
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Aequipecten is a genus
of scallop
s, marine
bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of scallop
Scallop
A scallop is a marine bivalve mollusk of the family Pectinidae. Scallops are a cosmopolitan family, found in all of the world's oceans. Many scallops are highly prized as a food source...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae
Pectinidae
The Pectinidae are a family of bivalve mollusks including the scallop and closely related to the clam and oyster. They are hermaphrodite, and the male gonads mature first. Pectinidae can live attached by means of a filament they secrete, or are simply recumbent. Their valves can propel them...
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Species
- Aequipecten acanthodesAequipecten acanthodesAequipecten acanthodes, or the thistle scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. It can be found in Caribbean waters, ranging from southern Florida to Bermuda....
(Dall, 1925) — thistle scallop - Aequipecten audouinii (Paryaudeau 1826) — sometimes given as a subspeciesSubspeciesSubspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
of A. opercularis - Aequipecten commutatus (Monterosato, 1875) — Canestrello scallop
- Aequipecten gibbus — calico scallop
- Aequipecten glyptus (Wood, 1828) — red-ribbed scallop
- Aequipecten heliacus (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1925) - Aequipecten irradians — Atlantic bay scallop
- Aequipecten lindae (Petuch, 1995)
- Aequipecten lineolaris (Lamarck, 1819) — wavy-lined scallop
- Aequipecten linki (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1926) - Aequipecten muscosusRough scallopThe rough scallop, Aequipecten muscosus, grows up to . It has a small, scallop-shaped shell with about twenty strong ribs which have many erect scales or small spines near the margin...
— rough scallop - Aequipecten opercularisQueen scallopThe Queen Scallop, scientific name Aequipecten opercularis, is a medium-sized species of scallop, an edible marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.-Description:...
(Linnaeus 1758) — Queen scallop - Aequipecten tehuelchus (D'Orbigny, 1846) — Tehuelche scallop