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

Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Placopecten*	A. E. Verrill, 1897	accepted genus name
*Chlamys (Placopecten)*	A. E. Verrill, 1897	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Amerikaanse grote mantel; Amerikaanse grote mantelschelp sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: American sea scallop; Atlantic deep sea scallop; Atlantic deep-sea scallop; Atlantic sea scallop; deep sea scallop; sea scallop sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;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.;Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Third Edition. Texas Tech University Press; Lubbock, Texas, 807 pp, ISBN 978-0-89672-620-8.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: pecten d'Amérique sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Atlantik Tiefsee-Kammmuschel; Atlantische Tiefsee-Kammmuschel; Atlantischer Tiefseescallop; Übersee-Jakobsmuschel

Literature

basis of record	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Gosner, K.L. (1979). A Field Guide to the Atlantic Seashore. Invertebrates and Seaweeds of the Atlantic Coast from the Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras. Wiley-Interscience, Boston. 329pp., figs. 1-72, pls. 1-64. [pdf copepods only].
additional source	Posgay, J. A. (1957). The range of the sea scallop. The Nautilus. 71(2): 55-57.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Worms, J.M. ; Davidson, L.A. (1986). Some Cases of Hermaphroditism in the Sea Scallop Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin) from the Southern Gulf of St.Lawrence, Canada. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 45(2): 116-126.
additional source	Merrill, A. S. & Edwards, R. L. (1975). Observations on mollusks from a navigation buoy with special emphasis on the sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus. The Nautilus. 89(4): 116-123, figs. 1-5.
additional source	Larsen, P. F. & Lee, R. M. (1978). Observations on the abundance, distribution and growth of postlarval sea scallops, Placopecten magellanicus, on Georges Bank. The Nautilus. 92(3): 112-116, fig. 1.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791). 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:156972