PECTEN SITE

Collection Arne Ghys

FAMILY	:	Pectinidae
SUBFAMILY	:	Pectininae
TRIBE	:	Aequipectinini
GENUS	:	Flexopecten
Synonyms	:

Pictures

Bari, Italy, Adriatic Sea trawled at 20 m depth H. 51.5 mm - W. 54.9 mm

Bari, Italy, Adriatic Sea trawled at 20 m depth H. 48.4 mm - W. 49.3 mm

 

Trieste, Italy trawled in sand at 20 m depth H. 49.2 mm - W. 49.0 mm

Chioggia, Venice, Italy, Mediterranean Sea trawled at 15 m depth H. 50.4 mm - W. 49.7 mm

Chioggia, Venice, Italy, Mediterranean Sea trawled in sand at 20 m depth H. 51.5 mm - W. 54.8 mm

Chioggia, Venice, Italy, Mediterranean Sea trawled in sand at 20 m depth H. 46.9 mm - W. 48.2 mm

Trieste, Italy, Mediterranean Sea trawled in sand at 15 m depth H. 54.7 mm - W. 60.4 mm

Remarks

• Very variable species: besides the normal Flexopecten glaber (Linnaeus, 1758) there is also Flexopecten glaber form ponticus (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889) from the Black Sea.
  
  

  	Flexopecten glaber right or lower valve is more convex than the 2 other subspecies left or upper valve with more than 5 ribs
  	Flexopecten glaber form ponticus right or lower valve less convex than F. glaber glaber left or upper valve with more than 5 ribs
  	Flexopecten glaber form proteus right valve less convex than F. glaber glaber left or upper valve with 5 ribs