Flexopecten

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Flexopecten
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A valve of Flexopecten glaber subspecies ponticus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus:Flexopecten
Sacco, 1897

Flexopecten is a genus of saltwater scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Scallop common name for several shellfish, many are a food

Scallop is a common name that is primarily applied to any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or 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 within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.

Species

Species and subspecies within the genus Flexopecten include:

Flexopecten felipponei is a species of saltwater scallop, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

<i>Flexopecten glaber</i> genus of molluscs

Flexopecten glaber is a species of saltwater clam, a scallop, a marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

<i>Flexopecten hyalinus</i> species of mollusc

Flexopecten hyalinus, the hyaline scallop, is a species of saltwater clams, a scallop, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

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