Chlamys (genus)

Chlamys
Fossil Chlamys with encrusters; Nicosia Formation (Pliocene) of Cyprus.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Ostreoida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Chlamys Röding, 1798
Species
See text.

Chlamys zelandiae New Zealand fan shell.

Chlamys is a genus of small scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae. The name is taken from the Ancient Greek, χλαμΰς or Chlamys, a cloak worn by soldiers.

Species in the genus Chlamys

• Chlamys albida (R. Arnold, 1906) - white scallop
• Chlamys australis Sowerby, 1844
• Chlamys behringiana (Middendorff, 1849) - Bering scallop
• Chlamys bruei (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Chlamys circularis (Sowerby, 1835)
• Chlamys consociata (E. A. Smith, 1915)
• Chlamys dichroa (Suter, 1909)
• Chlamys dieffenbachi (Reeve, 1853)
• Chlamys distorta
• Chlamys farreri
• Chlamys gemmulata (Reeve, 1853)
• Chlamys hastata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842) - spear scallop, spiny scallop
• Chlamys islandica (Müller, 1776) - Iceland scallop
• Chlamys jordani Arnold, 1903 - Jordan scallop
• Chlamys kincaidi Oldroyd, 1929
• Chlamys kiwaensis Powell, 1933
• Chlamys liocymatus (Dall, 1925)
• Chlamys lioicus (Dall, 1907)
• Chlamys lowei (Hertlein, 1935) - Lowe scallop
• Chlamys muscosus Wood, 1828
• Chlamys navarcha Dall, 1898
• Chlamys opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Chlamys pseudislandica MacNeil, 1967
• Chlamys rubida (Hinds, 1845) - reddish scallop
• Chlamys septemradiatus
• Chlamys strategus
• Chlamys subsulcata (Locard, 1898)
• Chlamys sulcata (O. F. Mueller, 1776)
• Chlamys swifti Bernardi, 1858
• Chlamys taiaroa Powell, 1952
• Chlamys tigerina
• Chlamys varia
• Chlamys wainwrightensis
• Chlamys zelandiae (Gray, 1843)
• Chlamys zeelandona (Hertlein, 1931)

References

• "Chlamys". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 
• Powell A. W. B. (1979), New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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