Placopecten magellanicus

Not to be confused with bay scallop.

Placopecten magellanicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Placopecten
Species:
P. magellanicus
Binomial name
Placopecten magellanicus
(Gmelin, 1791)[1]
Scallop dredge catch

Placopecten magellanicus, previously listed as Pecten tenuicostatus and as Pecten grandis[2] and once referred to as the "giant scallop", common names Atlantic deep-sea scallop, deep sea scallop, North Atlantic sea scallop, American sea scallop, Atlantic sea scallop, or sea scallop,[3] is a commercially important pectinid bivalve mollusk native to the northwest Atlantic Ocean.[4]

  1. ^ "Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. ^ Percy A. Morris (November 2001). A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 28. ISBN 0-618-16439-1.
  3. ^ "Common Names List - Placopecten magellanicus". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  4. ^ Barucca M, Olmo E, Schiaparelli S, Canapa A (2004) Molecular phylogeny of the family Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)