page_title: Queen scallop
section_title: Life habits
hierarchical_section_title: Queen scallop / Life habits
caption_attribution_description: English: Aequipecten/Chlamys opercularis Linnaeus, 1758. North Sea. width 5.5-7.5 cm. From local fishermen, Amsterdam, Holland, March 1993. One with Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus, 1758. Note that both the Crepidula and the barnacles adopt the fluted pattern of the 'Chlamys. Also Vermetus sp. attached.
context_page_description: The queen scallop 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.
context_section_description: The queen scallop feeds on a diet of plankton, and is commonly found up to 40 m (130 ft) below mean sea level, although it has been known to exist up to 400 m (1,300 ft) below sea level.
  This species is distributed from Norway south to the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean and is common in the North Sea on beds of sand and gravel.
caption: Several shells of queen scallop
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