Chlamys (bivalve)

Chlamys
Fossil Chlamys with encrusters; Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of Cyprus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Chlamys Röding, 1798
Species
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Chlamys is a genus of small scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae. The name is taken from the Ancient Greek, χλαμΰς or Chlamys, a cloak worn by soldiers.

Species[]

Chlamys zelandiae, the New Zealand fan shell

• (R. Arnold, 1906) – white scallop
• Chlamys australis Sowerby, 1844
• (Middendorff, 1849) – Bering scallop
• (Payraudeau, 1826)
• (Sowerby, 1835)
• (E. A. Smith, 1915)
• (Suter, 1909)
• (Reeve, 1853)
• Chlamys farreri (Müller, 1776)
• (Reeve, 1853)
• Chlamys hastata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842) – spear scallop, spiny scallop
• Chlamys islandica (Müller, 1776) – Iceland scallop
• Arnold, 1903 – Jordan scallop
• Oldroyd, 1929
• Powell, 1933
• (Dall, 1925)
• (Dall, 1907)
• (Hertlein, 1935) – Lowe scallop
• Wood, 1828
• Dall, 1898
• (Linnaeus, 1758)
• MacNeil, 1967
• Chlamys rubida (Hinds, 1845) – reddish scallop
• (Locard, 1898)
• (O. F. Mueller, 1776)
• Chlamys swifti Bernardi, 1858
• Powell, 1952
• Chlamys varia (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chlamys zelandiae (Gray, 1843)
• Chlamys zeelandona (Hertlein, 1931)

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chlamys.

Wikispecies has information related to Chlamys.

• "Chlamys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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