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| A valve of Flexopecten glaber subspecies ponticus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Flexopecten Sacco, 1897 |
Flexopecten is a genus of saltwater scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
Species
Species and subspecies within the genus Flexopecten include:
- Flexopecten felipponei (Dall, 1922)
- Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795)
- Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889)
- Flexopecten hyalinus (Poli, 1795)
Synonyms:
- Flexopecten coarctatus (Born, 1778) = Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795)
- Flexopecten glaber glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Flexopecten glaber proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Flexopecten ponticus = Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889)
- Flexopecten proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
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