{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{one source|date=October 2015}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Flexopecten ponticus 2008 G1.jpg | image_caption = A valve of ''Flexopecten glaber'' subspecies ''ponticus'' | taxon = Flexopecten | authority = Sacco, 1897 [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181536] }}
'''''Flexopecten''''' is a genus of saltwater scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
==Species== Species and subspecies within the genus ''Flexopecten'' include: * ''Flexopecten felipponei'' (Dall, 1922) * ''Flexopecten flexuosus'' (Poli, 1795) * ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758) ** ''Flexopecten glaber ponticus'' (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889) * ''Flexopecten hyalinus'' (Poli, 1795)
Synonyms: * ''Flexopecten coarctatus'' (Born, 1778) = ''Flexopecten flexuosus'' (Poli, 1795) * ''Flexopecten glaber glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Flexopecten glaber proteus'' (Dillwyn, 1817) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Flexopecten ponticus'' = ''Flexopecten glaber ponticus'' (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889) * ''Flexopecten proteus'' (Dillwyn, 1817) = ''Flexopecten glaber'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
==References== {{Reflist}} * [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181536 WoRMS info on the genus]
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Category:Pectinidae Category:Bivalve genera
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