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Chlamys
Chlamys zelandiae New Zealand fan shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Ostreoida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Chlamys Röding, 1798
Species
See text.

Chlamys is a genus of small scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae.

These scallops are found world-wide.

These scallops are sedentary, attached by a byssus to the undersides of rocks or other fixed objects. They are often enveloped in sponge.

The thin shells are often attractive and strongly-coloured, usually sculpted with regular, radial grooves. The 'ears' are unequal.

• Chlamys albida (R. Arnold, 1906) - white scallop
• 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 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 taiaroa Powell, 1952
• Chlamys tigerina
• Chlamys varia
• Chlamys wainwrightensis
• Chlamys zelandiae (Gray, 1843)
• Chlamys zelandona (Hertlein, 1931)

• "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