#4753 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Great Scallop
🇳🇱 Grote mantel ·Pecten maximus
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- 1. © Nataël Adam · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 3. © Nicole Viana · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 9. © Guido Schmitz · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?
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.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,681 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Great Scallop
- Nederlands
- Grote mantel
- scientific name
- Pecten maximus
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Pectinida
- family
- Pectinidae
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 2,287
- sightings worldwide
- 2,681
- GBIF records in NL
- 298
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Pectinidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324563, Wikidata Q1249634, GBIF 2285980, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.