Pecten excavatus

Pecten excavatus
Pected excavatus shell— left shell is shown in blue and is concave, right shell is shown in red and is highly convex
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Pecten
Species:
P. excavatus
Binomial name
Pecten excavatus
Anton, 1838
Synonyms
  • Pecten punctilatus Dunker, 1877
  • Pecten sinensis G.W Sowerby II, 1842

Pecten excavatus is a species of scallop, marine bivalve molluscs in the taxonomic family Pectinidae.