Placopecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 28.
Species Species within the genus Placopecten include: Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791) — Atlantic deep-sea scallop
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