| Aequipecten Temporal range:
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| Queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Aequipecten P. Fischer, 1886 |
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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, 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
References
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