Cryptopecten phrygium

Cryptopecten phrygium, the spathate scallop, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Cape Cod to the West Indies.^[1]

Cryptopecten phrygium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Pectinida
Family:	Pectinidae
Genus:	Cryptopecten
Species:	C. phrygium
Binomial name
Cryptopecten phrygium (Dall, 1886)

some spathate scallops are gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites. spathate scallops Life cycle is made up of Embryos develop into free-swimming trochophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.