''Amusium'' is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs 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 ...

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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 seaf ...

'' 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 anthrop ...

, 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, 1913 * †''Amusium toulae'' Brown and Pilsbry, 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 period to the Quaternary 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