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

Pteriidae Gray, 1847 (1820)

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

Isognomonidae Woodring, 1925 (1828) synonym
Vulsellidae Gray, 1854 synonym

Children

Electroma Stoliczka, 1871
Isognomon Lightfoot, 1786
Pinctada Röding, 1798
Pteria Scopoli, 1777
Vulsella Röding, 1798

Literature

basis of record

Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. 2010. Nomenclator of bivalve families; with a classification of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184.

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.

taxonomy 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

Gofas, S. (2014). Pteriidae Gray, 1847 (1820). 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:1775

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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2010-07-09 by Serge Gofas

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