• Source: Aequipecten

Aequipecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.




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.




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, 1758) — 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, 1758) — Queen scallop
Aequipecten tehuelchus (D'Orbigny, 1846) — Tehuelche scallop




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Catalogue of Life

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aequipecten
• Queen scallop
• Aequipecten acanthodes
• Aequipecten tehuelchus
• Scallop
• Argopecten irradians
• Rough scallop
• Ignaz von Born
• Pteriomorphia
• Pecten maximus