Pteria penguin: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Pteriidae
- Genus
- Pteria
- Species
- Pteria penguin
- Scientific Name
- Pteria penguin
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pteria penguin
Pteria penguin, commonly known as the penguin's wing oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. It is native to the western and central Indo-Pacific region and is used for the production of cultured pearls. The generic name comes from Greek πτερον (pteron) meaning wing.
...Pteria penguin in languages:
- Czech
- kýtovka velkokřídlá
- English
- Penguin's Wing Oyster
- English
- Common Wing Oyster
- French
- Avicule épaisse
- Japanese
- マベ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Pteria colymbus
- Pteria cooki
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- Pteria formosa
- Pteria gregata
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- Pteria howensis
- Pteria lata
- Pteria levitata
- Pteria maccullochi
- Pteria maura
- Pteria peasei
- Pteria penguin
- Pteria saltata
- Pteria spectrum
- Pteria sterna
- Pteria straminea
- Pteria tortirostris
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