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Pecten (genus)
Pecten (O. F. Müller, 1776) is a genus of scallops, family Pectinidae, including the king scallop Pecten maximus of the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean P. jacobaeus, and the Australian commercial scallop P. fumatus.
Pecten maximus
Pecten maximus, the king or great Atlantic scallop (coquille Saint-Jacques, Jakobsmuschel, vieira), is a large northeast Atlantic pectinid bivalve reaching 150 mm, fished mainly by dredge, with 74,494 t landed in 2023.