Pteria sterna: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Pteriidae
- Genus
- Pteria
- Species
- Pteria sterna
- Scientific Name
- Pteria sterna
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pteria sterna
Pteria sterna, or commonly known as the rainbow-lipped pearl oyster or the Pacific wing-oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae, the pearl oysters. This oyster can be found in shallow water along the tropical and subtropical Pacific coast of America, its range including Baja California, Mexico and northern Peru.
...Pteria sterna in languages:
- Czech
- kýtovka západní
- English
- Pacific Wing Oyster
- English
- Pacific Wing-oyster
- Japanese
- メキシコウグイスガイ
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