- Description
This large and diverse group of bivalves has a single, fused adductor muscle, and a hinge bearing a socket-like arrangement. The foot is greatly reduced and no siphons have developed along the mantle edge. All scallops possess well developed but tiny eyes set along the edge of the fleshy mantle (See link at right, below; Giant Rock Scallop). Scallops respond instantly to changes in light intensity or nearby moving objects.
- Some species of scallops are renowned for their ability to swim. A scallop swims by clapping its valves to ingest water. When the valves close, it then propels water at great force near the hinge, by means of the velum. The velum is a curtain-like fold of the mantle that is used to direct the flow of expelled water around the hinge, much like a pair of movable jets, or lips. Normal swimming is in the direction of the valve opening, but the scallop can sharply change direction with its velum.
- Species in the genus Chlamys are sedentary and live attached by a byssus under rocks in intertidal areas. Scallops are found in all seas, from shallow water to great depths.
- Classification
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- Class: Bivalvia
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- Subclass: Heterodonta
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- Order: Pterioida
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- Superfamily: Pectinacea
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- Family: Pectinidae
- Major Genera
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- Genus: Aequipecten
- Genus: Amusium
- Genus: Argopecten
- Genus: Chlamys
- Genus: Cyclopecten
- Genus: Cryptopecten
- Genus: Delectopecten
- Genus: Hinnites
- Genus: Leptopecten
- Genus: Lyropecten
- Genus: Patinopecten
- Genus: Pecten
- Genus: Placopecten
- Genus: Propeamussium
- Genus: Pseudamussium
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Adamussium colbecki
Aequipecten commutatus
Aequipecten flabellum
Aequipecten glyptus
Aequipecten heliacus
Aequipecten lineolaris
Aequipecten opercularis
Aequipecten tehuelchus
Amusium japonicum
Amusium pleuronectes
Anguipecten gregoryi
Anguipecten lamberti
Anguipecten pacificus
Anguipecten picturatus
Anguipecten simoneae
Anguipecten superbus
Annachlamys flabellatus
Annachlamys iredalei
Annachlamys kuhnholtzi
Annachlamys reevei
Annachlamys striatula
Antillipecten antillarum
Argopecten gibbus
Argopecten irradians
Argopecten noronhensis
Argopecten nucleus
Argopecten purpuratus
Argopecten ventricosus
Austrochlamys natans
Azumapecten farreri
Azumapecten ruschenbergerii
Bractechlamys adorabilis
Bractechlamys corallinoides
Bractechlamys langfordi
Bractechlamys nodulifera
Bractechlamys oweni
Bractechlamys vexillum
Caribachlamys mildredae
Caribachlamys ornatus
Caribachlamys pellucens
Caribachlamys sentis
Chlamys albida
Chlamys amandi
Chlamys behringiana
Chlamys chosenica
Chlamys cytherea
Chlamys hastata
Chlamys islandica
Chlamys rosealbus
Chlamys rubida
Chlamys strategus
Mimachlamys cloacata
Mimachlamys erycina
Complicachlamys wardiana
Coralichlamys madreporarum
Crassadoma gigantea
Cryptopecten bernardi
Cryptopecten bullatus
Cryptopecten nux
Cryptopecten phrygium
Cryptopecten vesiculosus
Decatopecten amiculum
Decatopecten plica
Decatopecten radula
Delectopecten alcocki
Delectopecten fosterianus
Delectopecten macrocheiricola
Delectopecten musorstomi
Delectopecten polyleptus
Delectopecten vancouverensis
Delectopecten vitreus
Delectopecten zacae
Dentamussium obliteratum
Equichlamys bifrons
Euvola chazaliei
Euvola galapagensis
Euvola laurenti
Euvola marensis
Euvola papyracea
Euvola perula
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