Taxon Description (Wikipedia)
Pecten maximus, common name the "great scallop" or "king scallop", is a species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
This species is commercially exploited.[http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/importance_Pectenmaximus.htm]
This is the type species of the genus.
This species may in fact be conspecific with
Pecten jacobaeus, the "pilgrim's scallop", which has a much more restricted distribution. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=21267]
File:Pecten maximus(02).jpg|thumb|left|Live individual of
Pecten maximus on the right, next to
Ostrea edulisCategory:Pectinidae
Category:Edible molluscs
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