Pteria (genus)
| Pteria Temporal range: Triassic–Recent | |
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| Pteria penguin | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pterioida |
| Family: | Pteriidae |
| Genus: | Pteria Scopoli, 1777[1] |
Pteria is a genus of molluscs in the family Pteriidae.[2] The species of the genus are sometimes referred to as wing-oysters or winged oysters.
Selected species
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following species in the genus: [1]
- Pteria admirabilis Wang, 2002
- Pteria aegyptiaca (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802)
- Pteria bernhardi (Iredale, 1939)
- Pteria broomei Huber, 2010
- Pteria brunnea (Pease, 1863)
- Pteria bulliformis Wang, 2002
- Pteria colymbus (Roding, 1798) — Atlantic wing-oyster
- Pteria cooki Lamprell & Healy, 1997
- Pteria dendronephthya Habe, 1960
- Pteria fibrosa (Reeve, 1857)
- Pteria formosa (Reeve, 1857)
- Pteria gregata (Reeve, 1857)
- Pteria heteroptera (Lamarck, 1819)
- Pteria hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
- Pteria howensis Lamprell & Healy, 1997
- Pteria lata (Gray in Eyre, 1845)
- Pteria maura (Reeve, 1857)
- Pteria peasei (Dunker, 1872)
- Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798) — Penguin's wing oyster
- Pteria physoides (Lamarck, 1819)
- Pteria saltata (Iredale, 1931)
- Pteria spectrum (Reeve, 1857)
- Pteria sterna Gould, 1851 — Pacific wing-oyster
- Pteria straminea (Dunker, 1852)
- Pteria tortirostris (Dunker, 1849)
- Pteria venezuelensis (Dunker, 1872)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, Philippe (2013). "Pteria Scopoli, 1777". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
- ↑ 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.