{{Short description|Genus of bivalves}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|235.0|0|Triassic - Recent}} | image = Pectinidae - Hinnites crispus-00.JPG | image_caption = Fossil valve of ''Hinnites crispus'' from Pliocene of Italy | taxon = Hinnites | authority = DeFrance, 1821 | synonyms = }}
'''''Hinnites''''' is a genus of rock scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.<ref>[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=79676 ITIS]</ref>
These mollusks have been recorded as fossils from the Triassic to the Quaternary (from 235.0 to 0.126 Ma). Fossils have been found in the sediments of Algeria, Angola, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Africa, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United States, Australia and of various European countries.<ref name=fa>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16708 Paleobiology Database]</ref>
==Description== This genus include scallops with thick shells resembling that of an oyster.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hinnites Merrian-webster]</ref>
''Hinnites'' is unusual in that, like the extant taxon ''Crassadoma gigantea'', it was free-swimming as a juvenile, but subsequently cemented itself to a hard substrate.
==Species== Species within the genus ''Hinnites'' include:<ref name=fa/> * ''Hinnites corallinus'' <small>G. B. Sowerby I, 1827</small> * ''Hinnites crispus'' † <small>(Brocchi, 1814)</small> * ''Hinnites denticostatus'' † <small>Klipstein 1843</small> * ''Hinnites distortus'' <small>(da Costa, 1778)</small> <ref>[http://www.femorale.com.br/shellphotos/detail.asp?species=Hinnites+distortus+%28da+Costa%2C+1778%29 Femorale]</ref> * ''Hinnites ercolanianus'' † <small>Cocconi 1873</small> * ''Hinnites granulosus'' † <small>Klipstein 1843</small> * ''Hinnites obliquus'' † <small>Münster 1841</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Hinnites cortesyi'' <small>Defrance 1821</small>: synonym of ''Hinnites crispus'' <small>(Brocchi, 1814)</small> † * ''Hinnites giganteus'' (Gray, 1825) (synonym of ''Crassadoma gigantea'')<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Mollusca/Bivalvia/Ostreoida/Pectinidae-Propeamussidae/Crassodoma_gigantea.html |title=Wallawalla |access-date=2015-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626185352/http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Mollusca/Bivalvia/Ostreoida/Pectinidae-Propeamussidae/Crassodoma_gigantea.html |archive-date=2015-06-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Hinnites multirugosus'' (Gale, 1928):<ref>D.L.Leighton [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00386802 A growth profile for the rock scallop Hinnites multirugosus held at several depths off La Jolla, California]</ref> synonym of ''Crassadoma gigantea'' <small>(J.E. Gray, 1825)</small>
==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} * Vaught, K.C.; Tucker Abbott, R.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp.
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Category:Bivalve genera Category:Pectinidae
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