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Argopecten
	Shell of Argopecten irradians from Bermuda Islands at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Argopecten; Monterosato, 1889
Species
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Argopecten is a genus of saltwater clams, or scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Argopecten include:

Argopecten gibbus (Linnaeus, 1767) — Atlantic calico scallop
Argopecten irradians (Lamarck, 1819) — Atlantic bay scallop (five subspecies)
Argopecten lineolaris (Lamarck, 1819)
Argopecten nucleus (Born, 1778) — nucleus scallop
Argopecten purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) — Peruvian calico scallop or Chilean-Peruvian scallop
Argopecten ventricosus (Sowerby II, 1842)^[2]

^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 29-30.
^ "Argopecten ventricosus (G.B.Sowerby II, 1842)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^ Malacolog - A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca
^ WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species
^ Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. Catalogue of life
^ The Paleobiology Database

Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.

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