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Pectinoidea
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Pectinoidea

The Pectinoidea are a superfamily of marine bivalve molluscs, including the scallops and thorny oysters (despite the common name, the latter are not true oysters).

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5 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Scallops

familyPectinidae

Thorny Oysters

familySpondylidae

Glass Scallops

familyPropeamussiidae

Neitheidae

familyNeitheidae

Cyclochlamydidae

familyCyclochlamydidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 522249.