Pteria (genus)

Pteria
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pterioida
Family: Pteriidae
Genus: Pteria
Scopoli, 1777

Pteria is a genus of molluscs in the family Pteriidae.[1] The species of the genus are sometimes referred to as wing-oysters or winged oysters.

Selected species

References

  1. ^ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Altantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 22.