Queen scallop
The queen scallop (Aequipecten opercularis) is a medium-sized species of scallop, an edible marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. It is found in the northeast Atlantic and is important in fisheries.
| Queen scallop | |
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| View of two valves of two Aequipecten opercularis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Aequipecten |
| Species: | A. opercularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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