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Mizuhopecten yessoensis, Yesso scallop(s), Japanese scallop(s)

Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Jay, 1857)

Invalid synonym: Patinopecten yessoensis

• Modern species: Pliocene - Present (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Pectinida, family Pectinidae, genus Mizuhopecten

• Distribution
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Niigata, Toyama
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Kanagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Niigata, Ishikawa

• Subtaxa
• M. y. yokoyamae