title: Flexopecten
text: # Flexopecten
  
  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)
  