The Bay Scallop
To celebrate the upcoming 2018 Pine Island Sound Scallop Search (August 18, 2018), organized by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences in conjunction with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, I present the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians (Lamarck, 1891), one of the most common species of the family Pectinidae in Southwest Florida. Its shell can reach 75 mm (about 3 inches) in size, and the valves show almost the same degree of convex