Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Pteriomorphia > Order Pterioida > Superfamily Pterioidea > Family Pteriidae

Pteria Scopoli, 1777

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Avicula Bruguière, 1792 synonym

Children

Pteria aegyptiaca (Dillwyn, 1817)
Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pteria sterna (Gould, 1851)

Literature

redescription

Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

status source

Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Pteria Scopoli, 1777. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138397

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

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Last modified

2011-03-12 by Philippe Bouchet

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