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

Flexopecten Sacco, 1897

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Chlamys (Flexopecten) Sacco, 1897 synonym
Chlamys (Lissopecten) A. E. Verrill, 1897 synonym

Children

Flexopecten flexuosus (Poli, 1795)
Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
Flexopecten hyalinus (Poli, 1795)

Literature

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

Spadini, V. (2022). La famiglia Pectinidae nel Pliocene senese (Italia, Toscana). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna. 55: 67-136.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Flexopecten Sacco, 1897. 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:181536

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2023-06-26 by Thomas A. Neubauer

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