Margaritidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Margaritidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Margaritidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Margaritidae
Margaritidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Margaritinae Thiele, 1924, originally a subfamily in Trochidae was moved to Turbinidae following Williams et al. 2007. It has been elevated to the rank of family Margaritidae. This family has no subfamilies.
...Margaritidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 珍珠螺科
- Japanese
- エゾシタダミ科
- Korean
- 띠진주조개과
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