Pecten fumatus, the commercial scallop, is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Pectinidae, the scallops. It is endemic to Australia, distributed from Keppel Bay and Swain Reefs, Queensland, southwards and around southern Australia, including Tasmania, to North West Cape, Western Australia. This species is the target of a dredge fishery in the Bass Strait off southern Australia.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Commercial Scallop being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pecten novaezelandiae
- Pecten maximus
- Pecten jacobaeus
- Aequipecten tehuelchus
- Equichlamys bifrons
- Argopecten irradians
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Pectinida
- Family
- Pectinidae
- Genus
- Pecten
- Species
- Pecten fumatus
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