Mimachlamys asperrima

Mimachlamys asperrima
One valve on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Mimachlamys
Species:
M. asperrima
Binomial name
Mimachlamys asperrima
(Lamarck, 1819)
Synonyms
  • Pecten asperrimus Lamarck, 1819
  • Chlamys asperrimus (Lamarck, 1819)
  • Chlamys asperrimus dennanti Gatliff & Singleton, 1930
  • Ostrea matonii Donovan, 1824
  • Mimachlamys australis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
  • Pecten australis G. B. Sowerby II, 1842
  • Chlamys australis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
  • †Pecten antiaustralis Tate, 1886

Mimachlamys asperrima, common name the austral scallop, doughboy, doughboy scallop, fan shell, or prickly scallop, is a species of scallop, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

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