Biology:Flexopecten glaber

Short description: Species of bivalve

Flexopecten glaber
A valve of Flexopecten glaber ponticus
Flexopecten glaber ponticus - MHNT
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Flexopecten
Species:	F. glaber
Binomial name
Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]

Flexopecten glaber is a species of saltwater clam, a scallop, a marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

Flexopecten glaber distans
Right and left valve of the same specimen:

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  Right valve
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  Left valve

Subspecies

Subspecies of this species recognized by WoRMS include:

• Flexopecten glaber ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889), from the Black Sea

Synonyms:

• Flexopecten glaber glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Flexopecten glaber proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Flexopecten proteus (Dillwyn, 1817) = Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• WoRMS info on the species
• Images of shells of the species

Wikidata ☰ Q3073690 entry