''Amusium'' is a genus 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 families ...

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

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, bival ...

mollusc 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 esti ...

s belonging to 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 ...

Extant species

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Amusium pleuronectes ''Amusium pleuronectes'' is a species of bivalves belonging to the family Pectinidae. The species is found in Southeastern Asia and Australia. They are edible and sold at wet markets in Malaysia. In Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ...

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, the ...

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, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

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Extinct species

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Amusium balloti ''Ylistrum balloti'', known as Ballot's saucer scallop is found around the waters of Australia. This scallop may live for a maximum of four years, and reach 14 cm in shell length, though more commonly 8 to 9 cm. Well regarded as seafoo ...

'' Bernardi, 1861 * †''Amusium bocasense'' Olsson, 1922 * †''Amusium cristatum'' (Bronn, 1827) * †''Amusium darwinianum''

d'Orbigny Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropol ...

, 1846 * †''Amusium filosum'' Hauer, 1857 * †''Amusium hulshofi'' Martin, 1883 * †''Amusium lucens'' Tate, 1886 * †''Amusium mimyum'' Woodring, 1982 * †''Amusium mortoni'' Ravenel, 1844 * †''Amusium orientale'' Dey, 1961 * †''Amusium papyraceum'' Gabb, 1873 * †''Amusium paris'' del Rio, 1992 * †''Amusium sol'' Brown and

Pilsbry Henry Augustus Pilsbry (7 December 1862 – 26 October 1957) was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a centu ...

, 1913 * †''Amusium toulae'' Brown and

, 1911 * †''Amussium alazanum'' Cooke, 1928 * †''Amussium destefanii'' Ugolini, 1903 * †''Amussium lompocensis'' Arnold, 1907 * †''Amussium subcorneum'' d'Archaic and Haime, 1854 This genus is known in the fossil record from the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

period to the

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...

period (age range: 336.0 to 0.012 million years ago). These fossils have been found all over the world.

References

Pectinidae Extant Carboniferous first appearances Bivalve genera {{Bivalve-stub