PECTEN SITE

Collection Arne Ghys

FAMILY	:	Pectinidae
SUBFAMILY	:	Palliolinae
TRIBE	:	Palliolini
GENUS	:	Placopecten
Synonyms	:

Pictures

Nova Scotia dredged H. 111.7 mm - L. 122.1 mm

Cape Cod, Massachussets, USA trawled at 30-50 m depth H. 111.0 mm - L. 113.9 mm

off Digby Neck, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia trawled at 100 m depth on rocky bottom H. 100.3 mm - L. 98.4 mm

Remarks

• big pectinid up to 220mm in height
• commercially fished species
• smooth valves with numerous very fine radiating riblets
• regularly found with rays of different colouration