#4648 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Queen scallop
🇳🇱 Wijde mantel ·Aequipecten opercularis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © kristobal22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Susanne Vogel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Pablo Tejedor · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Munster Mad · CC0
- 5. © cccrll · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Chris Isaacs · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Hannes Dahm · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The queen scallop ( Aequipecten opercularis ) is a medium-sized species of scallop, an edible marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. It is found in the northeast Atlantic and is important in fisheries.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,385 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Queen scallop
- Nederlands
- Wijde mantel
- scientific name
- Aequipecten opercularis
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Pectinida
- family
- Pectinidae
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 980
- sightings worldwide
- 1,385
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,484
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Pectinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324572, Wikidata Q3789454, GBIF 2285838, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.