Flexopecten

Flexopecten
A valve of Flexopecten glaber subspecies ponticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreoida
Suborder: Pectinina
Superfamily: Pectinoidea
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Flexopecten
Sacco, 1897

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

Species

Species and subspecies within the genus Flexopecten include:

Synonyms:

References


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