Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pectinida > Superfamily Pectinoidea > Family Pectinidae > Subfamily Pectininae > Tribe Aequipectinini

Argopecten Monterosato, 1889

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Argopecten gibbus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Argopecten ventricosus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)

Literature

original description

Monterosato, T. A. di. (1889). Coquilles marines marocaines. Journal de Conchyliologie. 37(1): 20-40 [2 May 1889]; 37(2): 112-121 [20 September 1889].

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.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Argopecten Monterosato, 1889. 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:156816

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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2023-11-17 by Thomas A. Neubauer

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