Atrina pectinata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Pinnidae
- Genus
- Atrina
- Species
- Atrina pectinata
- Scientific Name
- Atrina pectinata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Atrina pectinata
Atrina pectinata is a species of bivalves belonging to the family Pinnidae, and has the common names comb pen shell and fan mussel in English.
The species is found in the Old World. They are important in commercial fishing in Asia, where its meat is prized as seafood. A. pectinata is a sedentary long-lived species that lives up to 7 years. The byssus has been used in Sardinia to weave sea silk, as a replacement for the byssus of critically endangered Pinna nobilis.
...Atrina pectinata in languages:
- Chinese
- 牛角江珧蛤
- English
- Rough Penshell
- Japanese
- タイラギ(旧名)
- Māori
- Kūkukuroa
- Portuguese
- Leque-do-mar
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Atrina assimilis
- Atrina chautardi
- Atrina chinensis
- Atrina cumingii
- Atrina exusta
- Atrina fragilis
- Atrina hystrix
- Atrina inflata
- Atrina japonica
- Atrina lischkeana
- Atrina marquesana
- Atrina maura
- Atrina oldroydii
- Atrina pectinata
- Atrina penna
- Atrina pini
- Atrina recta
- Atrina rigida
- Atrina seminuda
- Atrina serra
- Atrina serrata
- Atrina squamifera
- Atrina strangei
- Atrina tasmanica
- Atrina texta
- Atrina tuberculosa
- Atrina vexillum
- Atrina zelandica



















































