Pecten jacobaeus

Pecten jacobaeus Temporal range: Pliocene – Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
The upper (flat) valve of Pecten jacobaeus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Pecten
Species:	P. jacobaeus
Binomial name
Pecten jacobaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Ostrea jacobaea Linnaeus, 1758 Plicatula jacobaeus (Linnaeus, 1758) Vola jacobea (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]

Pecten jacobaeus, the Mediterranean scallop, is a species of scallop, an edible saltwater scallop, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.^[1]