Aequipecten

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

Aequipecten
Temporal range: Triassic - Recent
Queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis
Scientific classification
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


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