#4834 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Atlantic Bay Scallop
Argopecten irradians
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Susan J. Hewitt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Brice C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © bev435 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Eric Heupel · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Argopecten irradians , formerly classified as Aequipecten irradians , common names Atlantic bay scallop or bay scallop , is an edible species of saltwater clam, a scallop, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. It is native to the northwest Atlantic from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,603 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck in 1819 (207 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Bay Scallop
- scientific name
- Argopecten irradians
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Pectinida
- family
- Pectinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,603
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1819 by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
relatives· Pectinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 122039, Wikidata Q3018372, GBIF 2285856, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.