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Bivalve mollusk with orange valves Smooth Scallop (Flexopecten glaber ponticus), Black Sea Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pecten jacobaeus is a species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This species appears to be endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, but it may in fact be conspecific with Pecten maximus, the great scallop, which has a larger distribution. [1] These scallops eat planktonic organisms and other floating food particles, which they obtain by