Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Argopecten ventricosus
vieira jaspeada, bivalvos, Pacific calico scallop, bivalves
Length: 105 mm
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), sandy or muddy bottoms of the sublittoral down to 150 m depth
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Bivalvia
Order
Pectinida
Superfamily
Pectinoidea
Family
Pectinidae
Section
Pectinini
Genus
Argopecten
Species
ventricosus
Taxon category: Accepted
Finet (2001): This name is a replacement name for Argopecten circularis (Sowerby, 1835), whose type was misidentified, being in fact a specimen of the western Atlantic Argopecten irradians concentricus (Say, 1822) (see WALLER, 1995), AMNH: 117929, 139349, ANSP: 154919, CDRS: 250, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993. Nombre de reemplazo para la especie del Pácifico Oriental, antes conocida como Argopecten circularis, (Sowerby, 1835).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: From California to Chile and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Fischer, W. Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Vol. I. Plantas e Invertebrados. FAO, Roma, 646 pp.
- Waller, T.R. (1995) The misidentified holotype Argopecten circularis (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). The Veliger 38(4): 298-303.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Argopecten ventricosus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8608. Accessed 20 May 2025.