species 939 observations

Atlantic Deep-sea Scallop

Placopecten magellanicus

Field notes

Placopecten magellanicus, previously listed as Pecten tenuicostatus and Pecten grandis, once referred to as the "giant scallop", and commonly known as the Atlantic deep-sea scallop, deep sea scallop, North Atlantic sea scallop, American sea scallop, Atlantic sea scallop, or sea scallop, is a commercially important pectinid bivalve mollusk native to the northwest Atlantic Ocean.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided