Queen Scallop

Queen Scallop Facts

• A scallop is a marine bivalve mollusk of the family Pectinidae. Scallops live in all the world’s oceans.
• This is one of the largest families of living bivalves. There are over 300 living species of scallop. Their main adaptation is the ability to swim by clapping their valves together. In this way they escape from most of their predators. However, a few species attach to rocks as adults by a filament. Most species lie on sandy beds, and swim off when touched by a starfish or other predator.
• They have eyes round the edges of their mantle. Their eyes cannot see shapes, but they can detect changing patterns of light and motion. The scallop eyes fringing the edge of its shell detect moving objects as they pass successive eyes.
• Most scallops are filter feeders. They eat plankton.
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