Flexopecten

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Kingdom Animalia Suborder Pectinina Family Pectinidae Phylum Mollusca Order Ostreoida		Class Bivalvia Superfamily Pectinoidea Scientific name Flexopecten Rank Genus

Similar Flexopecten glaber, Flexopecten flexuosus, Aequipecten, Acanthocardia paucicostata, Barbatia barbata

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:

Flexopecten felipponei (Dall, 1922)

Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795)

Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889)

Flexopecten hyalinus (Poli, 1795)

Synonyms:

Flexopecten coarctatus (Born, 1778) = Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795)

Flexopecten glaber glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Flexopecten glaber proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Flexopecten ponticus = Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889)

Flexopecten proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

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