Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinida > Superfamily Pectinoidea

Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Camptonectinae Habe, 1977
Palliolinae Korobkov, 1960
Pectinidae incertae sedis
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

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

German: Jakobsmuscheln; Kammmuscheln; Pilgermuscheln 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: イタヤガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: kammusslor

Literature

additional source	Sacco, F. (1904). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXX. Aggiunte e correzioni. Considerazioni generali. Indice generale dell'opera. Torino: Clausen. xxxvi + 203 pp., 31 pls.
additional source	Saavedra, C. & Peña, J. B. (2006). Phylogenetics of American scallops (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) based on partial 16S and 12S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. Marine Biology. 150(1): 111-119.
additional source	Waller, T. R. (2006). Phylogeny of families in the Pectinoidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia): importance of the fossil record. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 148(3): 313-342.
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.
additional source	Waller, T.R 1991. Evolutionary relationships among commercial scallops. pp. 1-73, 11 figs., 8 pls., 1 table. (in) S.E. Shumway (editor), Scallops: biology, ecology and aquaculture. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
additional source	Waller, T. R. (2006). New phylogenies of the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia): reconciling morphological and molecular approaches. In: Shumway, S. E.; Parsons, G. J. (eds) Scallops: biology, ecology and aquaculture, second edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1-44.
additional source	Shumway, S.E. & Parsons, G.J. (eds). (2006). Scallops: biology, ecology and aquaculture, second edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam etc. 1460 pp.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pectinidae Rafinesque, 1815. 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:213