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Definition of Genus Pecten
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Pectinidae: sea and bay scallops.
Group relationships: Family Pectinidae, Pectinidae
Member holonyms: Bay Scallop, Pecten Irradians, Giant Scallop, Pecten Magellanicus, Sea Scallop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pecten
Literary usage of Genus Pecten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"He followed H. and A. Adams in adopting Pecten for a very large group, with P.
varius Linnu as the type, while the true genus Pecten was called Vola (after ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"The genus Pecten began to emerge in the Devonian and Carboniferous. ... P.
irradians, therefore, belongs to the most primitive division of the genus Pecten. ..."
3. Pectens by William John Dakin, Liverpool Marine Biology Committee (1909)
"Genus: Pecten. The American scallop, however, ... The genus Pecten is of world-wide
distribution, though most of the species are confined to smaller areas, ..."
4. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1826)
"The fact of the English species having been so long kept in the genus Pecten,
shows the great affinity which the genus ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Theoretical and Practical by John Phillips (1885)
"The common scallop is referred to the genus Pecten. The characters which are
common to all species of Pecten are the definition of the genus, ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"It is quite possible that the typical genus Pecten occurs in British Carboniferous
rocks ; indeed, Professor M'Coy has so referred one species. ..."
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