Pteria (genus)

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pteriidae Rank Genus		Class Bivalvia Phylum Mollusca Order Pterioida

Similar Pteria penguin, Pteriidae, Pteria sterna, Pinctada, Pteria hirundo

Pteria is a genus of molluscs in the family Pteriidae. 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:

Pteria admirabilis Wang, 2002

Pteria aegyptiaca (Dillwyn, 1817)

Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)

Pteria bernhardi (Iredale, 1939)

Pteria broomei Huber, 2010

Pteria brunnea (Pease, 1863)

Pteria bulliformis Wang, 2002

Pteria colymbus (Roding, 1798) — Atlantic wing-oyster

Pteria cooki Lamprell & Healy, 1997

Pteria dendronephthya Habe, 1960

Pteria fibrosa (Reeve, 1857)

Pteria formosa (Reeve, 1857)

Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857)

Pteria heteroptera (Lamarck, 1819)

Pteria hirundo Linnaeus, 1758

Pteria howensis Lamprell & Healy, 1997

Pteria lata (Gray in Eyre, 1845)

Pteria maura (Reeve, 1857)

Pteria peasei (Dunker, 1872) ‒ swift wing oyster

Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798) — Penguin's wing oyster

Pteria physoides (Lamarck, 1819)

Pteria saltata (Iredale, 1931)

Pteria spectrum (Reeve, 1857)

Pteria sterna Gould, 1851 — Pacific wing-oyster

Pteria straminea (Dunker, 1852)

Pteria tortirostris (Dunker, 1849)

Pteria venezuelensis (Dunker, 1872)

References

Pteria (genus) Wikipedia

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