''Pecten'' is a
genus
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of large
scallops or saltwater clams,
marine bivalve molluscs in the
family
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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 ...
, the scallops. This is the
type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
of the family.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the
Cretaceous
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period to the
Quaternary period (age range: from 70.6 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.
Etymology
The name ''Pecten'' is from the Latin word for a
comb
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or
rake. Since 1904, a ''Pecten'' shell has been used as the basis of the logo of
Shell
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Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
** Thin-shell structure
Science Biology
* Seashell, a hard o ...
petroleum company.
Species
Species in the genus ''Pecten'' include:
*''
P. albicans''
(Schröter, 1802)
*''
P. afribenedictus''
Kilburn & Dijkstra 1995
*''
P. alcesianus'' †
McLearn 1933
*''
P. alpha'' †
Dall 1898
*''
P. argillensis'' †
Conrad 1860
*''
P. assinboiensis'' †
Russell & Landes 1937
*''
P. aurantiacus''
Roding 1798
*''
P. aztecus'' †
Bose 1906
*''
P. barretti'' †
Seeley 1861
*''
P. bifidus'' †
Menke 1843
*''
P.biddleana'' †
Kellum 1926
*''
P. cadwalladerensis'' †
McLearn 1942
*''
P. ceibanus'' †
Cooke 1928
*''
P. coderensis'' †
Harris 1927
*''
P. collapsus'' †
White 1887
*''
P. coralliphila'' †
Olsson 1922
*''
P. danicus''
Chemnitz 1795
*''
P. deformis'' †
Tate 1887
*''
P. dendyi'' †
Hutton 1902
*''
P. dentatus''
Sowerby 1829
*''
P. disparatus'' †
Wood 1882
*''
P. elixatus'' †
Conrad 1846
*''
P. excavatus''
Anton, 1838
*''
P. expansus'' †
Smith 1847
*''
P. flemingianus'' †
de Koninck 1863
*''
P. fumata'' †
*''
P. fumatus''
Reeve 1852
*''
P. gramamensis'' †
Maury 1930
*''
P. grapteus'' †
Maury 1924
*''
P. hemphillii'' †
Dall 1879
*''
P. humphreysii'' †
Conrad 1842
*''
P. inaequalis'' †
Cossmann & Lambert 1884
*''
P. jacobaeus''
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
*''
P. kokcharofi'' †
de Verneuil 1845
*''
P. lowei''
Hertlein 1935
*''
P. maximus''
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
*''
P. mclellani'' †
Gibson 1987
*''
P. mediacostatus'' †
Hanna 1926
*''
P. membranosus'' †
Morton 1834
*''
P. mendenhalli'' †
Arnold 1906
*''
P. nearchi'' †
Vredenburg 1928
*''
Pecten nigromagnus'' †
1897Fossil Shells
*'' P. novaezelandiae'' Reeve 1853
*'' P. nugenti'' † Brown 1913
*'' P. obsoletus'' Pennant 1777
*'' P. palmipes'' † Tate 1886
*'' P. paradezii'' † d'Orbigny 1842
*'' P. pascoei'' † Cox 1936
*'' P. pictus'' † Cossmann & Lambert 1884
*'' P. pilgrimi'' † Cox 1936
*'' P. plebeia'' † Lamarck 1806
*'' P. politus'' † Gemmellaro 1896
*'' P. pontiamnis'' † McLearn 1942
*'' P. pseudosolarium'' † Hassan 1953
*'' P. ptychotis'' † M'Coy 1847
*'' P. raoulensis'' Powell 1958
*'' P. sanctiludovici'' † Anderson & Martin 1914
*'' P. santarosanus'' † Bose 1905
*'' P. saskatchewanensis'' † Warren 1934
*'' P. scintillatus'' † Conrad 1865
*'' P. seabeensis'' † Richards 1947
*'' P. sealyi'' † Richards 1947
*'' P. sedanensis'' † Martin 1909
*'' P. silentiensis'' † McLearn 1926
*'' P. squamula'' † Lamarck 1806
*'' P. striatus'' Müller 1776
*'' P. subrufus'' Pennant 1777
*'' P. sulcicostatus'' Sowerby II, 1842
*'' P. suwanneensis'' † Dall 1898
*'' P. thaumastus'' † Maury 1924
*'' P. triradiatus'' Müller 1776
*'' P. tyaughtonae'' † McLearn 1942
*'' P. vasseli'' † Fuchs 1878
*'' P. vaughani'' † Cooke 1919
*'' P. vigintisulcatus'' † Müller 1776
*'' P. wendelli'' † Tucker 1934
*'' P. yessoensis'' Jay, 1857
References
Bibliography
*Frank H.T. Rodes, Herbert S. Zim en Paul R. Shaffer (1993) - Natuurgids Fossielen (het ontstaan, prepareren en rangschikken van fossielen), Zuidnederlandse Uitgeverij N.V., Aartselaar. ISBN D-1993-0001-361
*Cyril Walker & David Ward (1993) - Fossielen: Sesam Natuur Handboeken, Bosch & Keuning, Baarn.
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2704723
Pectinidae
Bivalve genera
Extant Cretaceous first appearances
Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller