Sealife guideThe spiny pink scallopChlamys hastata
Taxonomy
- Common name: Spiny pink scallop, swimming scallop, spiny scallop, spear scallop
- French name: Pétoncle épineux
- Scientific name: Chlamys hastata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
- Family name: Pectinidae
- Order name: Pectinida
- Class name: The bivalves and clams [Bivalvia]
Within the same family

Great atlantic scallop
(Pecten maximus)

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