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Argopecten is a genus of saltwater clams, or scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.^[1]

Argopecten

Shell of Argopecten irradians from Bermuda Islands at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Argopecten Monterosato, 1889
Species
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Species

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Species within the genus Argopecten include:

Argopecten gibbus (Linnaeus, 1767) — Atlantic calico scallop
Argopecten irradians (Lamarck, 1819) — Atlantic bay scallop (five subspecies)
Argopecten lineolaris (Lamarck, 1819)
Argopecten nucleus (Born, 1778) — nucleus scallop
Argopecten purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) — Peruvian calico scallop or Chilean-Peruvian scallop
Argopecten ventricosus (Sowerby II, 1842)^[2]

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Extinct species

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Argopecten ameleus Woodring 1925

Argopecten antonitaensis Durham 1950

Argopecten callidus Hertlein 1925

Argopecten crassiradiatus Clark 1915

Argopecten cristobalensis Hertlein 1925

Argopecten demiurgus Dall 1898

Argopecten deserti Conrad 1855

Argopecten diminutivus Hertlein 1927

Argopecten eboreus yorkensis Conrad 1867

Argopecten eccentricus Gabb 1873

Argopecten ericellus Hertlein 1929

Argopecten evermanni Jordan and Hertlein 1926

Argopecten gilbertharrisi Hodson and Hodson 1927

Argopecten gratus del Rio 1992

Argopecten hakei Hertlein 1925

Argopecten inaequalis Sowerby 1850

Argopecten insuetus del Rio 1992

Argopecten invalidus Hanna 1924

Argopecten levicostatus Toula 1909

Argopecten mendenhalli Arnold 1906

Argopecten nerterus Woodring 1982

Argopecten parathetidis Waller 2011

Argopecten percarus Hertlein 1925

Argopecten revellei Durham 1950

Argopecten subdolus Hertlein 1925

Argopecten sverdrupi Durham 1950

Argopecten thetidis Sowerby 1850

Argopecten uselmae Pilsbry and Johnson 1917

Argopecten venezualanus Hodson and Hodson 1927

Argopecten woodringi Spieker 1922

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References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Argopecten.

^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 29-30.

^ "Argopecten ventricosus (G.B.Sowerby II, 1842)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 19 October 2021.

^ Malacolog - A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

^ WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species

^ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life

^ The Paleobiology Database

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

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