Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Description
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Family Pectinidae
Height not much, if at all, greater than the length .
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 40 meters (132 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Class:
Bivalvia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Bivalves
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
()
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
()
- Order:
Ostreoida
()
- Superfamily:
Pectinoidea
()
- Family:
Pectinidae
()
- Rafinesque, 1815
- Scallops
- Genus:
Equichlamys
()
- Specific name:
bifrons
- (Lamarck, 1818)
- Scientific name: - Equichlamys bifrons (Lamarck, 1818)
- Specific name:
bifrons
- (Lamarck, 1818)
- Genus:
Equichlamys
(
- Family:
Pectinidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pectinoidea
(
- Order:
Ostreoida
(
- Superorder:
Filibranchia
(
- Subclass:
Metabranchia
(
- Class:
Bivalvia
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Equichlamys
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Further Reading
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- Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 58.
Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 06, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 06, 2007:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences OBIS Mollusc Database [Darwin Core]
- OZCAM
- Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6117633
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16074125
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 819117
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 106.110 based on 54 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
