Pteria (bivalve)

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Pteria
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Pteria penguin 01 by Line1.JPG
Pteria penguin
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pteriida
Family: Pteriidae
Genus: Pteria
Species:
Pteria
Binomial name
Pteria
Scopoli, 1777[1]
Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802), museum specimens Naturalis
Pteria fibrosa (Reeve, 1857), museum specimens Naturalis

Pteria is a genus of molluscs in the family Pteriidae.[2] The species of the genus are sometimes referred to as wing-oysters or winged oysters.

Selected species[]

The World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus:[1]

  • Wang, 2002
  • (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • (Holten, 1802)
  • (Iredale, 1939)
  • Huber, 2010
  • (Pease, 1863)
  • Wang, 2002
  • Pteria colymbus (Roding, 1798) — Atlantic wing-oyster
  • Lamprell & Healy, 1997
  • Habe, 1960
  • (Reeve, 1857)
  • (Reeve, 1857)
  • (Reeve, 1857)
  • (Lamarck, 1819)
  • Pteria hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
  • Lamprell & Healy, 1997
  • (Gray in Eyre, 1845)
  • (Reeve, 1857)
  • Pteria peasei (Dunker, 1872) ‒ swift wing oyster
  • Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798) — Penguin's wing oyster
  • (Lamarck, 1819)
  • (Iredale, 1931)
  • (Reeve, 1857)
  • Pteria sterna Gould, 1851 — Pacific wing-oyster
  • (Dunker, 1852)
  • (Dunker, 1849)
  • (Dunker, 1872)


Pteria hirundo in situ.


References[]

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe (2013). "Pteria Scopoli, 1777". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  2. ^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 22.


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