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Right valve from the Pliocene of Italy. This species of scallop lives in the North Sea, the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea. [5] Mimachlamys varia is a shallow-living species, living up to about 100m in depth along coastal rocky areas. [5] It typically lives under boulders or among the holdfasts of seaweeds.
Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus.
When the adductor muscles of a bivalve mollusk contract, the valves close, which compresses the ligament. When the adductor muscles relax again, the elastic resiliency of the ligament reopens the shell. Scallops swim through the water column by rapidly and repeatedly clapping (opening and closing) their valves. An interesting fact about ...
Original – Anatomy of the right side of a scallop, including detailed information on the circulation and nervous systems as well as all the major organs. Note that the intestines are embedded within the gonad, and that portions of the left side (principally the gills and the shell) are not shown.
Valves stop (or regulate) the flow of liquids or gases. They are categorized by application, such as isolation, throttling, and non-return. Isolation valves temporarily disconnect part of a piping system to allow maintenance or repair, for example. Isolation valves are typically left in either a fully open or closed position.
The giant scallop is equilateral (i.e., symmetrical anterior-to-posterior) and very nearly equivalved (i.e., its left and right valves are close to the same size and shape), though this is not true of all or even most members of the class pectinidae.
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