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English: Anatomical diagram of a giant scallop. Colors are close to those in an actual animal (digestive gland is black; adductor muscle is white; female gonad is orange, nerves are in yellow, etc.) though shown with greater than natural contrast for emphasis.
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.
Scallop (/ ˈ s k ɒ l ə p, ˈ s k æ l ə p /) [a] is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.
A bivalve shell is the enveloping exoskeleton or shell of a bivalve mollusc, composed of two hinged halves or valves. The two half-shells, called the "right valve" and "left valve", are joined by a ligament and usually articulate with one another using structures known as "teeth" which are situated along the hinge line.
The adductor muscles have been cut, the valves are gaping. The internal anatomy is visible, including the paired siphons to the right A siphon is an anatomical structure which is part of the body of aquatic molluscs in three classes : Gastropoda , Bivalvia and Cephalopoda (members of these classes include saltwater and freshwater snails , clams ...
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Pecten is a genus of large scallops or saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This is the type genus of the family. Etymology