Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinoida > Superfamily Pectinoidea

Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Camptonectinae Habe, 1977
Chlamydinae Teppner, 1922
Palliolinae Korobkov, 1960
Pectininae Rafinesque, 1815
Pedinae Bronn, 1862

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: mantels sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: scallops sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: scallops sources: Charles Hussey

French: pectinidés sources: Bousfield, E.L. 1964. Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. > Musée national du Canada, Ottawa. 89 p.

Swedish: kammusslor

Literature

additional source	Bieler R., Carter J.G. & Coan E.V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.
redescription	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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213