Pteriidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Ostreida
- Family
- Pteriidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pteriidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pteriidae
Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.
Some of the species in this family are important economically as the source of saltwater pearls.
...Pteriidae in languages:
- Chinese
- 鶯蛤科
- Czech
- kýtovkovití
- Dutch
- Pareloesters
- German
- Flügelmuscheln
- Hebrew
- פניניתיים
- Japanese
- ウグイスガイ科
- Korean
- 진주조개과
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