Great scallop
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| phylum | Mollusca | Pecten maximus, common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of the genus. This species may be conspecific with Pecten jacobaeus, the pilgrim's scallop, which has a much more restricted distribution.
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| class | Bivalvia | |
| order | Ostreoida | |
| family | Pectinidae | |
| genus | Pecten | |
| species | P. maximus |
