Flexopecten glaber
| Flexopecten glaber | |
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| A valve of Flexopecten glaber ponticus | |
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| Flexopecten glaber ponticus - MHNT | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Ostreoida |
| Suborder: | Pectinina |
| Superfamily: | Pectinoidea |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Flexopecten |
| Species: | F. glaber |
| Binomial name | |
| Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Flexopecten glaber is a species of saltwater clam, a scallop, a marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
Subspecies
Subspecies of this species recognized by WoRMS include:
- Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889), from the Black Sea
Synonyms:
- Flexopecten glaber glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Flexopecten glaber proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Flexopecten proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
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