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Pteriidae

Appolloni, Massimo;Smriglio, Carlo;Amati, Bruno;Lugliè, Lorenzo;Nofroni, Italo;Tringali, Lionello P.;Mariottini, Paolo;Oliverio, Marco

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Pteriidae

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Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.

Species

wing oysters and pearl oysters

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassBivalvia
  4. OrderOstreida
  5. FamilyPteriidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded40,044

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,316
With media
100
Family
Pteriidae
Collections
LACM, PRI, UF, CAS
Recorded in
United States, Thailand, Philippines, Fiji, New Caledonia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pterioida
Image
Pteria hirundo (Linnaeus, 1758).jpg
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Commons category
Pteriidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Pteriidae
topic's main category
Category:Pteriidae
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Encyclopedic overview

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Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.

Some of the species in this family are important economically as the source of saltwater pearls.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pteriidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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