''Ylistrum balloti'', known as Ballot's saucer scallop is found around the waters of Australia. This

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 ...

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

seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...

in Asia and Australia.

Distribution and habitat

The Ballot's saucer scallop is highly available throughout the Australian coast. A previous record from Indonesia was observed in 1991. A recent report confirmed from

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island (

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) suggested the range is expanding to the north.

References

Pectinidae Seafood Molluscs described in 1861 {{Bivalve-stub