Aequipecten

Aequipecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.^[1]

Aequipecten Temporal range: Triassic - Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Aequipecten P. Fischer, 1886
Species
See text

Fossil records

This genus is very ancient. It is known in the fossil records from the Triassic to the Quaternary (age range: from 247.2 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils are found in the marine strata throughout the world.^[2]

Fossil valve of Aequipecten radians from Pliocene of Italy

Species

Species within the genus Aequipecten include:

• Aequipecten acanthodes (Dall, 1925) — thistle scallop
• Aequipecten audouinii (Paryaudeau 1826) — sometimes given as a subspecies of A. opercularis
• Aequipecten commutatus (Monterosato, 1875) — Canestrello scallop
• Aequipecten gibbus (Linnaeus, 1758) — calico scallop
• Aequipecten glyptus (Wood, 1828) — red-ribbed scallop
• Aequipecten heliacus (Dall, 1925)
• Aequipecten irradians — Atlantic bay scallop
• Aequipecten lindae (Petuch, 1995)
• Aequipecten lineolaris (Lamarck, 1819) — wavy-lined scallop
• Aequipecten linki (Dall, 1926)
• Aequipecten muscosus — rough scallop
• Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Queen scallop
• Aequipecten tehuelchus (D'Orbigny, 1846) — Tehuelche scallop

References

1. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 30-31.
2. Fossilworks

External links

• Catalogue of Life