Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Ostreida > Superfamily Pinnoidea > Family Pinnidae > Genus Atrina

Atrina pectinata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Pinna Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Atrina*	Gray, 1842	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: comb penshell sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kamm-Steckmuschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: タイラギ

Literature

basis of record	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
additional source	Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
additional source	Yokogawa, K. (1996). Genetic Divergence in Two Forms of Pen Shell Atrina pectinata. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 55 (1): 25-39.
additional source	Xue, D.-X.; Wang, H.-Y.; Zhang, T. (2021). Phylogeography and Taxonomic Revision of the Pen Shell Atrina pectinata Species Complex in the South China Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8 (753553): 1-17.
taxonomy source	Harzhauser M., Reuter M., Mandic O., Schneider S., Piller W.E., Brandano M. (2013). "Pseudo-Sarmatian" mollusc assemblages from the Early Messinian oolite schoals of Sicily (Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 119(3):351-386.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Atrina pectinata (Linnaeus, 1767). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140779