Placopecten
Sign in to savePlacopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Placopecten is referenced by 16 other articles, and connects out to Mollusca, Bivalvia and Pectinidae.
Vinony files it under Bivalve genera, Pectinidae and Taxa named by Addison Emery Verrill.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderPectinida
- FamilyPectinidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Pectinidae
- Collections
- ANSP, NCSM, YPM, SIO, UF
- Recorded in
- Panama, United States, Costa Rica
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- Parent taxon
- Pectinidae
- Image
- Placopecten magellanicus.jpg
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Placopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
==Species== Species within the genus Placopecten include: Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791) — Atlantic deep-sea scallop
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Placopecten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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Bivalvia
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Pectinidae
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Animalia
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
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World Register of Marine Species
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Catalogue of Life
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Paleobiology Database
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Barcode of Life Data Systems
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Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
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Pectinida
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Open Tree of Life
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Atlantic deep-sea scallop
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