“…Fished scallops in the study area of the two Flexopecten forms proteus and glaber, with epibiots on their left valves Many biologists have argued that the future of descriptive taxonomy will depend on successfully embracing new techniques. Many ideas have been proposed and much progress has been achieved by using molecular data that provide a complementary approach to discriminate species separated by subtle morphological characters (Knowlton, 1993;Avise, 1994;Chan & Chu, 1996;Sarver et al, 1998;Mathews et al, 2002;Goetze, 2003). The invertebrate mtDNA 16S rDNA gene has been relatively well studied due to availability of universal primers (Kocher et al, 1989;Palumbi, 1996) and was used to resolve taxonomic problems in the family Mytilidae (Rawson & Hilbish, 1995), Veneridae (Canapa et al, 1996) and Pectinidae (Canapa et al, 2000a;Saavedra & Pena, 2004;Pujolar et al, 2010).…”