''Argopecten'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of saltwater
clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shel ...
s, or
scallops,
marine bivalve mollusk
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 e ...
s in 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 ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Argopecten'' include:
* ''
Argopecten gibbus''
(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 ...
, 1767) — Atlantic calico scallop
* ''
Argopecten irradians
''Argopecten irradians'', formerly classified as ''Aequipecten irradians'', common names Atlantic bay scallop or bay scallop, is a species of scallop in the family Pectinidae. An edible saltwater clam, it is native to the northwest Atlantic fro ...
''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1819) — Atlantic bay scallop (five subspecies)
* ''
Argopecten lineolaris''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1819)
* ''
Argopecten nucleus''
(Born, 1778) — nucleus scallop
* ''
Argopecten purpuratus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1819) — Peruvian calico scallop or Chilean-Peruvian scallop
* ''
Argopecten ventricosus''
(Sowerby II, 1842)
Extinct species
* ''
Argopecten ameleus ''
Woodring 1925
* ''
Argopecten antonitaensis''
Durham 1950
* ''
Argopecten callidus''
Hertlein 1925
* ''
Argopecten crassiradiatus''
Clark 1915
* ''
Argopecten cristobalensis''
Hertlein 1925
* ''
Argopecten demiurgus''
Dall 1898
* ''
Argopecten deserti''
Conrad 1855
* ''
Argopecten diminutivus''
Hertlein 1927
* ''
Argopecten eboreus yorkensis''
Conrad 1867
* ''
Argopecten eccentricus''
Gabb 1873
* ''
Argopecten ericellus''
Hertlein 1929
* ''
Argopecten evermanni''
Jordan and Hertlein 1926
* ''
Argopecten gilbertharrisi''
Hodson and Hodson 1927
* ''
Argopecten gratus''
del Rio 1992
* ''
Argopecten hakei''
Hertlein 1925
* ''
Argopecten inaequalis''
Sowerby 1850
* ''
Argopecten insuetus''
del Rio 1992
* ''
Argopecten invalidus''
Hanna 1924
* ''
Argopecten levicostatus''
Toula 1909
* ''
Argopecten mendenhalli''
Arnold 1906
* ''
Argopecten nerterus''
Woodring 1982
* ''
Argopecten parathetidis''
Waller 2011
* ''
Argopecten percarus''
Hertlein 1925
* ''
Argopecten revellei''
Durham 1950
* ''
Argopecten subdolus''
Hertlein 1925
* ''
Argopecten sverdrupi''
Durham 1950
* ''
Argopecten thetidis''
Sowerby 1850
* ''
Argopecten uselmae''
Pilsbry and Johnson 1917
* ''
Argopecten venezualanus''
Hodson and Hodson 1927
* ''
Argopecten woodringi''
Spieker 1922
The Paleobiology Database
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References
* Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
Bivalve genera
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